Word: sukarno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where has TIME been? It was common knowledge in the late '50s that the CIA film on President Sukarno's bedroom abilities [Feb. 2] was taken by Dr. Sukarno as so complimentary that he tried (unsuccessfully) to get copies for public viewing in Indonesia, and thereby gain increased respect among his countrymen...
...late '50s, trying to sour Indonesia's late President Sukarno on the Soviet Union, the CIA produced a film purporting to show him engaging in sexual relations with a woman in Moscow-and planned to pass off the movie as a KGB blackmail attempt. Before the film could be circulated in Indonesia, however, the CIA had second thoughts and canceled the dirty trick...
...that's not Madame Butterfly in a fur coat. The fashion plate is Dewi Sukarno, 35, widowed fourth wife of former Indonesian President Sukarno, and she just dropped by Paris' House of Dior to sample a new furry creation. Now a Parisienne, Dewi has been working on a book about the Sukarno regime and its overthrow by the army in 1967. "No social life, no parties for me until the end of the year," claimed Dewi. "I'm just concentrating on the book." Well, during the day perhaps. At night the former first lady is still seen...
Some of the boldface incidents have appeared in print before or were generally known: the agency's loan of B-26 bombers and CIA pilots for the uprising against Indonesian President Sukarno in the late 1950s, the drifting of balloons laden with propaganda over mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, the training of the Dalai Lama's mountaineer troops when they were driven out of Tibet in 1959 by the Chinese Communists. But often the book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that...
...present government and its successor are gone, it must get along with any kind of regime, from right-wing dictatorship to left-wing populist to outright Communist (witness its Polish contract). Jamieson keeps on his office coffee table a handsome cigarette box presented to him by the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, a vehement foe of both the U.S. and capitalism. Jamieson notes that he has negotiated directly with the Shah of Iran...