Word: sukarno
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President Sukarno apparently agreed. Until last week he believed he had the twelve-week-old rebellion under control, was boasting to crowds that "the fall of capitalism is a historical necessity. A new era of socialism will be born . . . Those who don't realize this will ultimately be destroyed...
Some 10,000 government troops converged on the battered remnants of four rebel battalions defending their capital, Bukittinggi. The two-month-old rebellion, which aimed at the overthrow of President Sukarno and his Red-encouraged experiment in "guided" democracy, seemed at the point of extinction...
...oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake was a tactical one: they had been too confident that Sukarno's creaky government could not mount so competent and quick an offensive...
...Washington, the State Department tartly regretted Sukarno's buying of Communist arms "for possible use in killing Indonesians who openly oppose the growing influence of Communism in Indonesia." But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Sukarno had also requested military aid ($700 million worth) from the U.S. last summer and had been coldly ignored. Dulles reaffirmed the U.S. intention to sell arms to neither side in the civil...
...quickstep in Djakarta. As if anxious not to get too tied to the Communists or too detached from the U.S., Premier Djuanda honored U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones with a dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...