Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more daring. He has taken MGM/UA's largesse to mount a more elaborate version of the theme that solders his five earlier films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies; in the white man's clubs, journalists and diplomats slug back their Scotch and try to forget that the good imperial days have vanished into...
...most important information Barnett gave the Soviets concerned the CIA's Operation HABRINK in the late '60s. Moscow was then supplying Indonesia's President Sukarno with billions of dollars worth of military equipment. Indonesian naval officers, however, were selling some of the Soviet weapons, parts and manuals to the CIA. Barnett worked on the project under diplomatic cover. He may also have provided details on other covert activities he had known about during his directorate years. And as one former agency official put it, the KGB would surely have debriefed Barnett on CIA minutiae: "the weaknesses...
...always with the proviso that no strings be attached. This foreshadowed the new foreign policy of nonalignment -normal relations with the two superpowers, alliance with neither-that he developed further during the 1950s. With the backing of India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser and Indonesia's Sukarno, the Nonaligned Movement was formally inaugurated in Belgrade...
Everybody in the room was killed except Sukarno...
...cupcakes at 50 paces. One duelist was Dewi Sukarno, 39, the sloe-eyed, Japanese-born widow of the Indonesian strongman and a relentless Paris partygoer for the past half a dozen years. Her antagonist: the legendary Regine, 50, who has parlayed her soignée Paris boīte into a chain of expensive nightclubs reaching to New York and eight other cities. Three years ago, Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public...