Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's strategic location in the western Pacific and its heft as the world's fifth most populous nation have made the U.S. especially patient in dealing with the exasperating President Sukarno. But as he and the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.) have grown increasingly violent in recent months, U.S. patience has worn thin. Last week President Johnson dispatched Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 70, to Djakarta to see what is left to save in Indonesian-American relations...
...five USIS libraries, which had been repeatedly pillaged by Indonesian mobs. Though U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones and his staff are still in Djakarta, even the envoy's residence has been raided. The only other official U.S. presence is a handful of Peace Corpsmen, largely gym instructors. Sukarno has already taken over nominal management-first step toward probable confiscation-of American rubber interests, as well as the Stanvac and Caltex oil companies...
...throw bricks at property or people. Do not cause damage," lectured Indonesia's President Sukarno to a group of university students. It seemed a strange note to strike, in view of the fact that four times in the past three months Sukarno had permitted Indonesian mobs to storm USIS offices in Djakarta, Surabaya and Medan, smashing windows, ripping down American flags, burning thousands of books...
First the Communist workers in foreign-owned plants rally and riot, demanding that the management be thrown out and the factory given to the workers. Then Sukarno steps in to take over the management on behalf of the Indonesian government to "protect" the plants and estates from the angry workers. Formal nationalization is apt to follow. The Dutch, Belgians and British have all been victims of the Sukarno Method in recent years...
Last week it was the Americans' turn: Indonesia announced it was taking over the management of the $80 million rubber plantations in North Sumatra owned by the U.S. Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Sukarno's spokesman insisted that U.S. ownership rights would of course continue to be "recognized." Of course...