Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's rabble-rousing, globe-trotting President Sukarno gets a kick out of meeting other heads of state-it boosts his prestige. But last week Sukarno summoned Britain's ambassador to Djakarta, regretfully called off a trip to London (scheduled for next week) to meet Queen Elizabeth. The British managed to control their disappointment...
Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, and it became clear that Indonesia's President Sukarno was at last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea's coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea...
...four-party coalition government threatened to defect rather than risk voters' ire. The troubled Calvinists re quested a postponement of the debate. Su karno increased the pressure on Dutch public opinion by offering to send his pow erful vice premier, Mohammad Yamin -who is in charge of Sukarno's West Irian "development planning" - to Washington for a new round of talks on a settlement...
...Sukarno went back to his military preparations. More than 25,000 Indonesian invasion troops are now in training, and even young girls in toreador pants and green forage caps drill in Djakarta parks. In Hong Kong and Tokyo, Indonesian agents are shopping for the landing craft that Sukarno needs to ferry troops across 1,600 miles of sea to New Guinea...
Suddenly Indonesia's delegate rose and left for home. It was just part of the dis rupting strategy of Indonesia's President Sukarno, whose military patrols soon be gan prowling New Guinea's coastline again. As for calling off the threat of in vasion, Sukarno chuckled, "Truly, I do not want to stop it, for it is a rolling snowball that will run down everything...