Word: sukarno
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...Indonesian island of Batam, just ten miles across the straits from Singapore, doesn't have a sports schedule, but its students still play lots of games away. Housed in a cluster of tin-roofed, concrete-block buildings, the institution is a school for sabotage founded by Indonesian President Sukarno as part of his "confrontation" with the Malaysian Federation. At Batam Tech, students get a month's intensive training in such subjects as judo and jellied explosives; on graduation day they receive, instead of a sheepskin, a time bomb or a grenade or a burp gun. Then they...
...guerrilla force that bore down on the Malay Peninsula in a flotilla of 30-ft. outboard motorboats, debarked at three points along the swampy coast only 35 miles north of Singapore. The raid was an Indonesian attempt to open a second front on the Malayan mainland itself in Sukarno's undeclared war, which so far has been chiefly confined to the Indonesian-Malaysian border in Borneo...
...Senate, $216.7 million out of the foreign-aid authorization bill. In other aid-bill amendments, the Senate increased the interest rate on new commercial development loans to 31%, and obliged Indonesia's left-leaning President Sukarno, who said recently that the U.S. could "go to hell with its aid," by banning all aid whatsoever to his country...
...still determined not to bring about a complete break with Sukarno, and moreover believes that the defense of Malaysia is primarily a British responsibility, but President Johnson promised "anything you like from sergeants on up" in the way of military training. Moreover, he agreed to consider the Tunku's request for U.S. jets and helicopters...
...Singapore's racial split widens to include the whole federation, not even airplanes will be any help. The feud between Malays and Chinese could then become a greater threat to the federation than Sukarno. To prevent all Malaysia from running amok, Lee and the Tunku called on all Malaysians to cooperate with the central government. "The first phase of the rioting is over," Lee said. "Our business now is to restore confidence. If order isn't restored...