Word: sukarno
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...felt he had carried off all the marbles. "That tireless herald of friendship and cooperation among nations," as Pravda called him, had not been so gay since he gave up heavy drinking. Flying direct from Vienna, he arrived just in time to greet Indonesia's wide-roaming President Sukarno, whom he presented with a car and a six-foot bronze statue of a Soviet sportswoman. Next night Khrushchev brought all the top Soviet brass to Sukarno's 60th birthday party, held on the lawn of the Indonesian embassy...
Then a second band broke into a number that goes, "Indonesia is free-cha cha cha." Sukarno grabbed Nina Khrushchev for a partner. Nikita leaped up himself, waggled through a few steps, took a bongo drum and thumped it for a while. Then he seized Sukarno's silverheaded marshal's baton and began leading the band. Sukarno said he would expect some new Soviet credits in return...
...climax of the evening came in true Sukarno style. A flock of pretty Indonesian girls he had brought with him to Moscow in his chartered U.S. jet rushed up and kissed the top Soviet leaders. Sukarno then demanded to be kissed in return by a Russian girl. Resourcefully, Nina Khrushchev walked into the crowd of lower-ranking guests and spied a pretty girl. "Are you Russian?" she asked. "Yes." said the girl. "Then come and kiss President Sukarno," commanded Nina. The girl said no, she did not want to. Her husband said he did not want her to. But Nina...
...U.A.R. last week, he suddenly flew off to Jidda to get acquainted with Saudi Arabia's rich King Saud. Saud proffered no money, so Toure hustled back to Cairo to continue his talks with Nasser, found that the U.A.R. President already had another tourist: Indonesia's Sukarno...
...equable hospitality to neutralist leaders, Nasser does not feel neutral about them personally. He does not like Sukarno; a devoted family man himself, he was shocked when, on a previous visit to Cairo, Sukarno asked to be provided with feminine companionship. Nasser finds Ghana's Nkrumah stuck-up, Nehru too preachy. But he likes Toure as "a natural man" (and a Moslem who calls himself Ahmad when in Cairo), and last week Toure came away from Cairo with a $16.8 million loan, repayable in seven years at 2½% interest, plus a $5,600,000 barter trade agreement...