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When President Sukarno decided to pester Malaysia with his konfrontasi, a kind of demi-war in which feints are more important than fighting, he little imagined that he would one day be the victim of his own tactic. Yet konfrontasi is just what Sukarno is experiencing at the hands of Indonesia's new triumvirate, headed by Army Lieut. General Suharto. The triumvirate still feels that Sukarno is too powerful to be openly challenged, but it is systematically reducing the aura that once surrounded him. Last week the aging (65) dictator could not pick up a newspaper, or even glance...
Never So Poor. Bhutto's people in the Foreign Ministry seem to be sponsoring a pinprick campaign to pester Americans. U.S. embassy mail has been held up repeatedly, and during last month's warfare embassy chauffeurs fetching officials from their homes late at night were frequently arrested and manhandled-which could only happen with the concurrence of the government...
Before every freshman football season, inquisitive fans pester coach Henry Lamar for an evaluation of his team. And every year Lamar gives them the same answer. "We're small," he says in his Virginia drawl, "but we're slow...
...addition to bagging bums, police use vagrancy laws as catchalls with which to hold crime suspects during investigations, to keep tabs on illicit activities, to chase undesirables out of town, and to pester criminals on whom they have been unable to pin a rap. In general, the attitude is that the laws are there to use when no other law will serve. New Orleans uses vagrancy laws to jail gamblers. St. Louis police haul in prostitutes for vagrancy "just to let them know we have them under surveillance." In Philadelphia a man who insisted on making love to his wife...
...TIME reader of some 14 years and a Democrat for about the same period, may I say I am just a bit weary of tiresome Republican readers who pester us so mercilessly with petty little anti-intellectual, xenophobic notes about Mr. Kennedy. He is a damn fine President, and everybody knows it, including his objective critics. I shall, of course, laugh all the way to the polls in '64. A landslide should prove especially delightful this time around...