Word: sukarno
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...politics is welcome, and Henry S. Parker '68 describes accurately the mysterious events of the attempted coup last October. He presents the ultimate challenge faced by the Army leaders in control: to unify and nationalize Indonesia on a basis of economic and social progress. This is a goal which Sukarno, for all his chauvinism, failed to achieve. The choice of books to be reviewed, two interpretations of the Vietnam conflict by war correspondents Robert Shaplen and Marguerite Higgins and Richard Hofstadter's essays on paranoid American extremism reflect the appropriate and timely taste of the editors. The reviewers give good...
...indeed an impressive homecoming reception-an official welcoming delegation at the airport, scores of jostling newsmen, photographers, television crews-the works. But after all, beautiful, 25-year-old Ratna Sari Dewi has come up in the world since that day in 1959 when Indonesia's fun-loving President Sukarno decided to make her his third wife...
Dewi, whom the Bung calls Morning Star, had come to Japan to sign a contract with a construction firm for a $3,700,000 hospital to be built in Djakarta with Japanese aid funds. But what seemed uppermost in her mind was dispelling rumors that Sukarno had lost control at home and was about to go into exile in Japan. "Calmness has been restored in Indonesia," she told reporters at the airport. "President Sukarno is in fine health, but he is so busy that he will not be able to leave the country for some time." A couple of days...
...looked the other way while Moslem mobs killed at least 100,000 members and supporters of Indonesia's pro-Peking Communist Party. And now the purge was spreading south from Sumatra and Java to Bali. Nor was it the press of business that kept hubby at home; Sukarno is said to have made elaborate visible arrangements to accompany Dewi. At the last minute Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution said...
President Johnson visits France, and all chefs in charge of cooking the state banquet resign. Lady Bird prepares instant coffee in hotel room. Communists take over Indionesia. When asked about the coup at a press conference, Sukarno laughs and pinches a lady reporter...