Word: sukarno
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...Mere Puppets. Suharto's moves cut short political maneuvering by two dangerous rivals who had helped him topple former Dictator Sukarno in 1966. Roly-poly Sumitro, a golfing partner ("My stomach is my handicap") of the President, had sought to build up a following with students. When he was reported as favoring "new national leadership," Sumitro immediately denied that he had ever thought of calling for Suharto's replacement. But to political observers it looked like a slip 'twixt cup and coup. After last month's student riots during Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka's visit...
Despite the recent wave of popular unrest, Indonesia is far better off than it was under dictatorial President Sukarno, whose government was overthrown eight years ago. Sukarno drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy; today it has a foreign exchange surplus of $500 million, an 8% growth rate and a 25% inflation rate (v. a crushing 635% in 1966). Jakarta's main thoroughfare, the Jalan M.H. Thamrin, is lined with modern hotels and high-rise office blocks...
...serious as the student demonstrations earlier this year in Thailand and South Korea. But it showed that a student protest could explode within one hour into a riot of 100,000 people. That fact was not lost on Suharto's government. The army's own rebellion against Sukarno in 1965 was also preceded by widespread student rioting in the streets of Jakarta...
...that Suharto would win the presidency if he went directly to his people, the fifth-largest national population in the world. For the former farm boy who turned revolutionary has shown considerable administrative ability since he seized power seven years ago from the erratic father of Indonesian independence, President Sukarno. Having saved his country from a threatened Communist coup, Suharto proceeded to rescue it from bankruptcy. His most dramatic achievement was to cut the annual rate of inflation from a staggering 635% in 1966 to as low as 2% last year...
...Dewi Sukarno was dewy-eyed with chagrin at being "compelled to do a thing which is not at all elegant." That inelegant thing, said the Indonesian dictator's pretty widow, is to sue one top Tokyo newspaper, one news agency and two leading Japanese weeklies for "having created a false and damaging image about myself." For years on end, complained Dewi, "these publications have been brainwashing the Japanese people with all manner of imagined poison about me." The latest toxin: a suggestion that her fiance, a Spanish banker, was connected with the Mafia. "This really is too much...