Word: sukarnoism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nasty campaign of harassment against Americans, Indonesia's President Sukarno has stopped their mail, scared off their servants, sacked their libraries and threatened to seize some $417 million worth of their property-all with scarcely more than a whimper from Washington. But Sukarno finally went too far: he began messing with New York World's Fair President Robert Moses, the Phurious Pharaoh of Flushing Meadow...
Last week fair officials learned that Sukarno has absolutely no intention of reopening the pavilion-but by then the Indonesians had made off with $20,000 worth of art objects. Moses and his aides retaliated at once. A squad of blue-uniformed Pinkertons, loaded pistols at their sides, sealed off the pavilion. When a crew of Indonesians breezed up to cart off more looty-booty, the Pinks barred the way. At the same time, fair officials fired off a cable advising Djakarta that the pavilion had been seized and that Indonesia's rights of entry "are hereby terminated, effective...
...Indonesians seemed hurt by the whole thing, pointed out that Moses' wrathful action came just when Special Presidential Envoy Ellsworth Bunker was in Djakarta to see about tempering Sukarno's anti-American binge. The fact is that nobody really expects Bunker to budge the Bung with his diplomatic chitchat. Maybe there's something to be said for the Mosaic method...
Just who began it all is not yet clear. Sukarno started an anti-American drive last summer as part of the campaign against Malaysia. Then the P.K.I, got into the act. Soon it had taken over. The P.K.I, has forced Sukarno to ban pro-Sukarno but anti-Communist newspapers, is now pressuring him to ban a nationalist Moslem student group. So obstreperous have the Communists become that for the first time there are signs of opposition; in East Java, 300 have died in clashes between Communists and Moslems...
Last week Communist unions refused to let a Pan Am plane billet overnight at Djakarta, held up telegrams and mail to U.S. newsmen and embassy officials, and urged Indonesian servants in American households to quit their jobs. Whether Sukarno could or could not restrain them, the P.K.I, extremists, carrying coffins through the streets as they chanted about "our enemies the Americans," seemed determined to get every last U.S. citizen out of Indonesia...