Word: sukarno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where a despot of either the right or the left has ruled in relative isolation, he has been more likely to fall of his own weight and more vulnerable to internal enemies. To wit: the Greek Colonels, who were America's sons of bitches, and Sukarno of Indonesia, who was Moscow's and who was ousted in an anti-Communist military coup in 1966. Even today the Soviet Union is hard pressed to save the tottering Marxist dictatorship of President Noor Mohammed Taraki from an Islamic rebellion in Afghanistan...
Ever since its first meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
...bureaucrats, had apparently won about 62% of the vote and at least 236 seats in the new house. Golkar's popular vote almost equaled its total in the 1971 elections - the only prior test of the government's popularity since Suharto ousted the late, pro-Communist Sukarno in the bloody aftermath of an abortive leftist coup...
...Despite Suharto's triumph at the polls, Indonesia still suffers from the same endemic corruption, the same extremes of wealth and poverty that led, in part, to Sukarno's downfall. One clue to the potential depth of discontent: in the capital of Jakarta, a teeming (pop. about 6 million) city of shopping centers and new high-rise hotels that overlook crumbling shanty towns, the Muslim party, which had campaigned against the regime's abuse of power, won 46.7% of the vote, while Golkar got only 34.8%. Cabled TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who spent ten days touring Indonesia...
Indonesia, in fact, has become a last frontier of the Pacific. The boom is now a decade old, and Suharto can claim much of the credit for it: shortly after Sukarno's ouster, the government passed laws encouraging foreign investment. Since then, vast sections of a breathtakingly beautiful country have been transformed-though not always in a flattering way. Huge development projects have brought roads, electricity, hospitals and schools to the hinterlands. Nonetheless most of Indonesia remains as it always was: a verdant wilderness populated by agrarian peoples...