Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's President Sukarno has always had a lively interest in the ladies-both personally and politically. As his ramshackle nation of 90 million begins a new eight-year Socialist "development" plan, Sukarno, who has had a total of four wives and two divorces, confided that he could not "implement this task without the help of women." In the rosy Socialist future, he promised, every Indonesian girl of marriageable age will have a husband, a radio and a modern kitchen (thus making a piker of Herbert Hoover, who in 1928 campaigned under the Republican slogan that merely promised...
Shrill threats to "liberate West Irian" have long been President Sukarno's favorite device to rouse Indonesian patriotic passions and divert attention from the myriad shortcomings of his floundering economy at home. Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea is based on the fact that the Dutch administered it as part of The Netherlands East Indies along with the other islands that now make up independent Indonesia...
...meantime, Indonesia shouts on, has twice landed armed parties in abortive raids. President Sukarno steadfastly has opposed Dutch offers of an invitation to the U.N. to send an observer to inspect colonial administration of the colony. Says Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio: "Why should any U.N. mission go there? The territory belongs to Indonesia and should come back to us. That's the only basis on which Indonesia will consider any talks...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...
Last October the government summarily canceled the licenses of all 65 Indonesian papers, reissued only 55; the missing ten were papers whose performance as advocates of the administration did not meet Sukarno's exacting standards. South Viet Nam arrests not only offending journalists but pressmen, compositors and Linotypists as well-together with their families...