Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barnstorming tour of the boondocks aimed at whipping up enthusiasm for his threatened invasion of Nether lands New Guinea, Indonesia's President Sukarno took along a star-studded cast: ten admiring foreign ambassadors, including the U.S.'s Howard Palfrey Jones, Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, a brigade of local beauties. As an unexpected thrill for the crowds along the way, there was even an unsuccessful assassination attempt...
...fourth brush with violent death, Sukarno was 100 yards away when a grenade exploded near his stalled car in the south Celebes city of Makassar. As always, the escape raised Sukarno's prestige to a new peak among his superstitious countrymen and served his immediate strategy. At a Djakarta reception next night, he cried dramatically: "They tried to kill me." Aides left no doubt that by "they" Sukarno meant the Dutch, although no one knows who actually planted the grenade. Communist China's Chou En-lai sent Sukarno a message condemning "imperialist ruffians." Khrushchev sent a "sincerely rejoicing...
Anti-Dutch Aloha. For all Sukarno's impassioned denunciations of Dutch "imperialism," in The Netherlands last week indignation was mainly directed at the U.S. and Ambassador Jones. A competent diplomat who has spent five years in Indonesia and has become deeply attached to the country, genial, guitar-twanging Howard Jones, 63, is an effusive admirer of Sukarno's oratory. Says he: "He's the greatest public speaker I've heard since William Jennings Bryan." After one of Sukarno's inflammatory anti-Dutch orations during his East Indonesia swing, Jones was introduced to the crowd...
Invasion "Any Day." Meanwhile, Sukarno sounded less inclined than ever to negotiate with the Dutch. Said he: "We are fed up." Pressing ahead with invasion plans, he bundled top government officials off to an army camp to toughen them up, installed military and civil commands for the territory he hopes to occupy, appointed as "liberation" leader able Brigadier General Suharto. Though the Dutch still believed that Sukarno was bluffing, one of his top staff officers said at week's end: "Military action can take place...
...Dutch to get involved in a pointless colonial war. A majority of the Cabinet also backs negotiations but a stubborn and potent minority, including Luns himself and Home Affairs Minister Edzo Toxopeus. wants Papuan self-determination guaranteed by the Indonesians before sitting down to the conference table. In Indonesia, Sukarno is restrained by the fact that an invasion of New Guinea is a far more risky military operation than was the Indian walkover in Goa. Should the invasion fail, Sukarno might well be overthrown as a consequence...