Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India's armed forces rolled into Goa last week, Indonesia's jaunty President Sukarno tried to hitch a ride. Standing beneath a canopy in the cultural center of Djokjakarta, Sukarno told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000 to prepare "for the coming general mobilization of all the Indonesian people soon to liberate West Irian from the claws of Dutch imperialism. My brothers, this is my command...
...Indonesia, the militant wing of the party reportedly favors the formation of an underground army against the day when power will be seized by violence, while the majority believes in supporting President Sukarno in the hope that increasing chaos will boost the Communists to power. Meanwhile, the Russians are busy flattering Lenin Peace Prizewinner Sukarno, offering academic scholarships (100, compared with 19 by the Chinese), building and equipping a 200-bed hospital in Djakarta. In Cambodia and Burma, the Chinese Communists are ahead, capitalizing on their racial similarities and on large colonies of local Chinese. While Russian diplomats and technicians...
Next morning, Kennedy saw Sukarno and Keita separately. First to arrive was Keita, who wore, instead of his arrival-day blue suit, a multicolored, hand-woven robe called a boubou. Keita talked of his country's need for economic assistance,* warned Kennedy that in the new African states, friendship goes to the big powers that provide the most help...
Since the visit was not official, neither guest was offered lodging at Blair House; Sukarno paid for the best suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and Keita stayed at the Mali embassy. At the airport, Kennedy seemed grim as he shook hands with the visitors, gave a bland speech of welcome that pointed up his own concern for peace. Wearing his customary sunglasses, pitji (pillbox hat) and rows of ribbons, fun-loving President Sukarno-who, during the recent Belgrade conference of neutralists, had spent many of his off-duty hours cavorting in a nightclub called the Snakepit-answered that he hoped...
...summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev unless the Soviet Union guaranteed the Allied right of access to West Berlin. Bluntly, he told his guests of his disappointment because the Belgrade conference had been harsher in judgment on the U.S. than on the Soviet Union. In answer, Sukarno said that the neutrals were interested in their own economic problems, and were not concerned about the rights and wrongs of Berlin. What they wanted, above all, was peace...