Word: sukarnoism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people seem less likely to be friendly than Indonesia's President Sukarno and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. But on Bobby's official visit to Indonesia two years ago, he and Sukarno quickly fell into an easy kidding relationship. Hopeful that the glow from the previous meeting still lingered, Lyndon Johnson last week dispatched Bobby to Sukarno's Tokyo vacation headquarters to try to cool off the Indonesian leader in his bitter dispute with the fledgling Federation of Malaysia...
...recognition of Red China. That, countered Menzies, "would give Peking a smashing victory." Calwell also asked for a treaty with Malaysia, enabling Australian troops to remain in the Malay peninsula. Such a treaty is impossible, Menzies replied, because Malaysia, already accused of "neocolonialism" by Indonesia's Sukarno, must appear neutral...
...program, none is so exasperating as Indonesia. Despite $881 million in U.S. handouts since 1946, Indonesia is an economic shambles. Factories lie idle for lack of spare parts, roads go unrepaired, and harbors clog with silt. "In Indonesia," the saying goes, "chaos is organized." Only Communist-coddling President Sukarno's 400,000-man military force seems to thrive...
Indonesia has thus been a prime target of foreign aid critics on Capitol Hill-and last week they were really steamed up. Released was testimony taken last June in a closed-door hearing before a House Appropriations Subcommittee. It nailed down the fact that Sukarno's luxury-loving government had purchased three jet airliners from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp. for $20 million-only a day before the U.S. granted Indonesia a $17 million "emergency" loan. The loan, Assistant Aid Administrator Seymour J. Janow told the subcommittee, was to help the "general stabilization of Indonesia...
...group requesting debate of the issue included Algeria, whose frankly dictatorial government is fighting to put down an insurrection, effectively controls the press, and last week expelled one U.S. and four French newsmen; Indonesia, whose ruler "for life," President Sukarno, runs a nasty little jungle tyranny; and Outer Mongolia, a Communist puppet...