Word: sukarnoism
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...pills from Canada and roughing up a cop and a customs agent to boot, Jane, 32, said of her overnight stay in stir: "When you think that the best people in this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow of the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, it was a helping hand at the pot-au-feu from Public Relations Man Jean-Claude Dauzonne in Paris. On a shopping spree in Rome, Dutch Actress Talitha Pol was glad to lean on the arm-not to mention the banknotes presumably stuffed...
Following the abortive Communist coup attempt in 1965, Suharto ruled out a swift move against then-President Sukarno on the advice of a dukun. Instead, he whittled away at Sukarno's power; eventually Sukarno faded away as a political force. On the advice of another dukun, Suharto recently avoided a hard-line approach to student dissidents and sat down for a series of discussions with them until tempers cooled...
Foreign Devils. Bloodworth cannot resist comparing Indonesia's Sukarno to "a slightly passé Hollywood corespondent on the beach at Cap d'Antibes." Nor can he pass up the insignificant but tourist-thrilling fact. Example: anyone can buy a murder contract in the Philippines for as little as $250, $25 down. (Try a syndicate called the Beatles...
Papanek said in defense of present Indonesian policy that reversal of Sukarno's extravagant monument-building program-in combination with a resumption of large-scale American aid-has brought about significant economic improvement...
Adding that the government is reported to be releasing some of the political prisoners, he said, "By any standards that measure the well-being of the Indonesian people, this government is clearly doing more than the Sukarno government was doing. I don't think one has to be too apologetic for working with them...