Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME and its reporters were banned in Indonesia in 1961, and President Sukarno has never been secretive about his opinion of our coverage, which sharply delineated the country's downward slide under his capricious rule. The situation drastically changed last September when an attempted Communist takeover was put down by the army, and the generals began to maneuver Sukarno into the background...
...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...
...When Sukarno was finally forced to pass on his powers to the new regime in March, the TIME ban was again lifted, and Kraar was in the first group of American reporters to return. Sukarno spotted him and exploded. "I'm so angry," he sputtered, "I don't want to talk...
...power structure, as well as Sukarno's pretty Japanese wife, were willing to talk to Kraar as they were to talk with Senior Editor Edward Hughes when he toured Indonesia last April. Kraar, who has spent eleven weeks in Indonesia since September, was joined by Frank McCulloch, chief of the Hong Kong bureau, and Singapore-based Stringer Dan Coggin. In a six-week, 6,000-mile swing, Coggin covered Java, Bali, Sumatra and Sulawesi. The correspondents' massive reports furnished the material for Writer John Blashill's story...
...Sukarno's speech got just five seconds of polite applause, for the delegates were anxious to get on with their business. After Sukarno left the podium and was whisked away in his motorcade, member after member took the microphone to urge Congress to "reconsider" all its previous decisions "deviating from the Constitution." The Constitution, they pointed out, does not entitle anyone to be President for life...