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...listen politely, but continue on our chosen path." Both Husein and Simbolon said that they felt Sukarno was on the decline, indicated quite openly that they would prefer to see him replaced with someone else, possibly the Sultan of Djokjakarta. They also want to see Mohammed Hatta, a Sumatran currently on the outs with Sukarno, made Vice President or Premier. The alternative was a fragmenting of the country, with oil-rich Sumatra seeking some kind of autonomy. Said Colonel Simbolon confidently: "The national army is now so badly rent internally that it is unable to put anything but token pressure...
Crying Halt. First to cry halt was respected, soft-voiced Mohammed Hatta, himself a Sumatran, who resigned as Vice President in December largely because of his chief's overt flirtation with the Communists...
...Sumatrans would like to bring back to power Mohammed Hatta, 54, a widely respected Sumatran, who along with President Sukarno led the fight for Indonesia's independence from the Dutch. Distressed at the weakness of Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which flirts with Communism and tolerates corruption, Hatta resigned last month as Vice President of the country...
While the government fumed, the Sumatran army headquarters continued last week to dispatch nightly caravans of heavily guarded trucks to small northern ports where 16 small-tonnage ships waited to smuggle the rubber across the narrow Malacca Strait. The government was helpless: the army alone has the authority to stop smuggling...
...through G. Wyman Carroll of New Haven, a free-lance animal dealer who spotted a pair in the Surabaya Zoo. At first Surabaya demanded two camels in exchange, then asked for two llamas. Carroll made a counteroffer of two sea lions. Surabaya finally sent the two proboscis monkeys, two Sumatran gibbons, two black langurs and one Celebes phalanger. In return it got two sea lions, two ring-tailed and two spider monkeys, and two U.S. raccoons...