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...leave his revolt and dissent-torn country for a prolonged rest. Both he and the country needed it. Sukarno, in a wild bid to whip up enthusiasm for Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea, has brought the country's economy almost to a standstill with his reckless and illegal seizures of Dutch commercial and agricultural properties. Whether the country's well-organized Communist Party may make a bid for power, or whether it will be effectively countered by the anti-Communist officers of the army, is still in doubt...
Indonesia's usually cocky President Sukarno seemed tired, nervous and uncertain. While his government's reckless campaign to seize The Netherlands' vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare for hard times. "We must dare!" he cried. "We must start from the bottom. In the next few years we may be short of food, short of clothing." But Sukarno's flamboyance was gone, his melodramatics unconvincing. His audience listened, unmoved...
...Moon. In Elko, Nev., Millard Dick. 38. smashed his car into the side of a truck, protested the charge of reckless driving because "I know I had the right of way-the light was blue...
...Indiana's oratorically reckless (but politically shrewd) William E. Jenner, 49, ardent supporter of the late Joe McCarthy, and McCarthy's successor as the Senate's most outspoken right-winger. Jenner's curt and unexpected announcement, stating no reason for his decision, shocked Indiana Republicans, who had considered him a good bet to win in 1958 no matter whom the Democrats nominated. Groping for an explanation of Jenner's decision, Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews said the Senator was "just tired of carrying on the fight for conservatism by himself." But some observers of Indiana...
...that Industry Minister Aziz Sidky would leave shortly for Moscow to negotiate detailed projects for building docks, drydocks and an automobile assembly plant, plus developing minerals and supplying tractors and machinery. "This is what Russian aid will do for you," explained Al Akhbar in a fine burst of reckless accounting. "It will find you and your son a job because it will help our five-year plan make 500,000 more jobs; it will increase your income because now the national income will be increased by $100 million; it will enable you to live better because now the standard...