Word: sjahrir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sutan Sjahrir, 56, Indonesia's first Premier from 1945 to 1947, in the Republic's renegade days (before The Netherlands finally recognized its former colony's independence in 1949), a moderate socialist leader who tried to avoid bloodshed by promising the Dutch full protection for their vast investments in return for freedom, but was turned down cold, a rejection so embittering to Indonesians that they turned away from Sjahrir's conciliatory position to Sukarno's militant anti-Western leftism; after a long illness; in Zurich, where he had lived since 1965, when Sukarno released...