Word: suharto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military regime lifted the ban on TIME. Bangkok Bureau Chief Louis Kraar flew into Djakarta to witness the mopping-up operations of Lieut. General Suharto's troops and the radical political changes that the military were setting in motion. After two weeks, the door closed again and Kraar had to leave. In the sub sequent tense weeks of struggle between Sukarno and the army, we found other ways of keeping informed. This week's cover is the 23rd story that we have run on Indonesia since the attempted coup...
...almost everything but his palaces and women. A new regime has risen, backed by the army but scrupulously constitutional and commanding vociferous popular support. "Indonesia is a state based on law not on mere power," says its new leader, a quietly determined Javanese general whose only name is Suharto...
...Under Suharto, the nation that last year was a virtual Peking satellite has become a vigorous foe of Red China. It has called off its senseless, undeclared war against Malaysia and revived its friendships with other neighbors. It has halted the economy-wrecking prestige projects that Sukarno so dearly loved. And in an orgy of flashing knives and coughing guns, it has virtually wiped out the Partai Komunis Indonesia (P.K.I.) -which under Sukarno had grown to be the third largest Communist Party in the world...
...destruction of his power. Presiding over the assembly when the Bung got up to speak was General Abdul Haris Nasution, whom he had fired as Defense Minister only four months before; Nasution had just been unanimously elected chairman of the Congress. Seated next to the podium was Lieut. General Suharto, to whom Sukarno had been forced to relinquish emergency powers in March; Suharto had just been unanimously confirmed by the Congress as the effective head of the government. About all that was left before the Congress was whether to strip Sukarno of his title, which was about...
...Djakarta, 35,000 students demonstrated for two successive days against Sukarno, returned to their classrooms only when Deputy Premier Lieut. General Suharto promised that the Consultative Congress would be called into session this month-and hinted broadly that it would indeed sharply reduce the President's powers...