Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many another leader from the new nations, Indonesia's bellicose Strong man "Bung" Sukarno has had to go hat in hand to his old and derided colonial masters for help...
...famine has been compounded by President Sukarno's economic boycott of neighboring Malaysia, which is a major rice supplier. Shortages have boosted rice prices 100% in the past six months, and so much of the Indonesian economy is tied up in Sukarno's military harassment of Malaysia that almost no cash is available to buy rice on the world market. Sukarno's dilemma is that a retreat from the anti-Malaysia campaign would only focus his people's attention on their bleak plight and encourage Indonesia's Communist Party, which is presently excluded from...
...MALAYSIA. Everybody was trying to make peace between the four-month-old Federation of Malaysia and President Sukarno's belligerent Indonesia. First, Attorney General Robert Kennedy arranged a cease-fire in the smoldering jungle war and set up a peace parley in Bangkok for this week. Then Cambodia's anti-American Prince Norodom Sihanouk ("Snookie" to some) criticized Bobby for "meddling," and tried to arrange a separate peace conference. The upshot was that nobody was quite sure who was meeting whom where...
...Bangkok this week, the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (which claims part of Sabah) hope to lay the groundwork for a possible tripartite "summit" session later this month that would bring together Indonesia's President Sukarno, Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal. But in view of Indonesian President Sukarno's un relenting "Crush Malaysia" campaign, there was widespread doubt over the chances of ending the bitter four-month feud. In London, where the U.S. Attorney General stopped off en route to Washington, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home...
Before he left Bangkok on a nonstop flight to London, and before he knew of Sukarno's latest declaration, Kennedy had said...