Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter to neutralist Presidents Keita of Mali and Sukarno of Indonesia (see following story), President Kennedy warned that "we do not intend to enter into negotiations under ultimata or threats. It is also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational...
Uninvited guests are often pests-especially when they drop by with the announced purpose of telling the host how to run the household. Thus President Kennedy last week made little effort to conceal his private irritation at a visit to Washington from Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno and Mali's towering (6 ft. 8 in.) President Modibo Keita, who had come, as representatives of neutralist nations, to urge the U.S. against taking any stands that might lead...
Despite his impatience, Kennedy played his public role of host with scrupulous attention to protocol. At Andrews Air Force Base, a starched, trim five-service honor guard and an Air Force band stood by when Kennedy helicoptered in to await Sukarno's chartered jet. But there was no ceremonial motorcade and no elaborate state dinner...
During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
Nehru-already scheduled to go to Moscow from Belgrade on a state visit-and Nkrumah were asked to take the Khrushchev letter. Sukarno then proposed that he and Mali's President Modibo Keita carry the Kennedy letter to Washington as official messengers. At the word "official." Nehru blew up. He would not be anybody's messenger, he declared. He would carry the message only in an unofficial capacity, insisted that Nkrumah go in a separate plane...