Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Measure of Legitimacy. The election was a costly ($55 million) move designed to give the regime, which took power from the late President Sukarno in 1965, a measure of legitimacy. The government took no chances. Before the election it forbade criticism of President Suharto or the government's program. The nine opposition parties were allowed to hold village rallies, but there were widespread charges of intimidation. In some provinces, army commanders prevented political rallies by scheduling military drills at the same time. The government also weeded out 2,500 unacceptable candidates and arrested many others...
...Chase Manhattan Bank) that oil companies would invest 835 billion in Asia and the Western Pacific over the next 12 years. Most of the money is projected for Southeast Asia and Indonesia, where American oil companies began drilling operations soon after that country's pro-U. S. military overthrew Sukarno...
...former U.S. advisor to anti-communist guerrilla forces in various countries in Asia, and a mercenary with Anti-Sukarno forces in the Celebes during the fifties, Seavers stresses that, "I have been fighting Communism in my own way for the last 23 years." He has not been back in America for the last 13 years...
Making the social scene in Paris, where she is enjoying all kinds of exotic thrills-such as Rothschilds, raw chestnuts, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, and steak tartare-pretty Dewi Sukarno, 30, a widow of the late President of Indonesia, keeps her rather notable shape with judo. "It's very funny," says Dewi. "After each lesson I feel really beaten-up for a couple of days, and then I'm ready to go again." One advantage is that it can be practiced at home, unlike another of her favorite sports-horseback riding. But judo is not only for physical...
...recruited from the local population. Nowhere except in Communist China does the church face official persecution, and in some places it receives unexpected encouragement. Though progress is slow in Moslem Indonesia (about 2,000,000 Catholics out of a population of 120 million), missionary kindnesses to the late President Sukarno in his rebel days have long since paid off in a public policy that goes well beyond toleration: Catholic clerics may even teach religion, in any of the schools, on government salaries...