Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such humdrum realities get little attention from Sukarno, a self-confessed romantic who said last year: "I belong to that group of people who are bound in spiritual longing by the romanticism of revolution. I am inspired by it. I am fascinated by it. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed. I am obsessed by the romanticism of revolution...
...Indonesian archipelago and that Army Chief of Staff General Nasution himself figures will take at least another two years to clean up. With the help of a Soviet $450 million arms loan, Nasution is building up military forces in the Moluccas, frankly aimed at adding weight to Sukarno's repeated demands for the "liberation" of what he calls West Irian-the half of New Guinea that the Dutch currently administer...
Better Luck? On landing in the U.S., Sukarno headed first for the Paramount lot and the high life of Hollywood. On the itinerary for this week is Washington, where President Kennedy plans personally to meet Sukarno when he lands at the National Airport, for Sukarno is both vain and touchy. "It is wise of President Kennedy to invite one of Asia's leaders at the start of his term," noted Sukarno grandly...
...Sukarno will certainly be looking for support on his claims to West Irian. "We will gladly accept the good offices of the United States in solving the question, as long as such mediation leads to the complete transfer of West Irian to Indonesia," explained Foreign Minister Subandrio. The Kennedy Administration has already encouraged the Indonesians (and alarmed the Dutch) by refusing to send a U.S. representative to ceremonies last month celebrating the installation of The Netherlands New Guinea's first elected council (23 of its 28 members are natives), in an effort to show itself neutral in the controversy...
Predictably, Sukarno will ask for more aid-he always does-since foreign money is the only thing that keeps his staggering economy going. The U.S. has already, in the eleven years of Indonesia's existence, given it $660 million in economic assistance, and Sukarno may have better luck with Kennedy than he did with President Eisenhower, who frankly did not like him. Apparently, the Kennedy Administration figures that unless Sukarno can be steadied down, the world's sixth most populous nation may break into warring fragments, or fall into the waiting arms of the Communists...