Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shift"-away from the West toward closer ties with Communist China. Involved was a balancing act that Ayub undoubtedly initiated himself to obtain arms for his quarrel with India, but the vitriolic Bhutto often seemed more martial than his field marshal. He hobnobbed with the lately ousted pro-Chinese Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, openly disavowed Ayub's agreement in Tashkent to end the Indian war, rekindled old Indian hatreds by crudely referring to his neighbors as "Indian dogs," once threatened to pull Pakistan...
There is, of course, no such thing as the Asian mind-there are dozens. An Indonesian is as different from a Japanese as a Frenchman from an American. Generalizations never do justice to national differences, but in a kind of shorthand it might be said that the Chinese are practical, pragmatic and irreligious; the Indians are impractical, theoretical and vaguely religious; the Japanese are ritualistic, restrained, esthetic and authoritarian; the Koreans are undisciplined, imaginative and creative; the Laotians are sensitive, pacific and passive; the Vietnamese are sensitive, combative and active. When the great Indian teacher and writer Rabindranath Tagore visited...
What Indonesia's Adam Malik and Malaysia's Abdul Razak actually signed last week fell considerably short of the official peace treaty for which Malaysia had hoped. It was, rather, a limited declaration of intent-which, at Indonesian insistence, would have to be ratified at home before it became official. This, Malik was frank to admit, was merely to avoid agitating President Sukarno, who has lost most of his former power but still holds out against peace with his old enemy. Besides, Malik explained, "our people have been led to crush Malaysia for the past three years...
...reasoning without question. At a press conference, Razak waved off the doubters with a single sentence: "You may think it a strange way of doing things, but it is our way-the Asian way." And, in fact, there was every indication that his faith was justified. In Djakarta, the Indonesian government suddenly called a halt to its long propaganda barrage against Malaysia, followed that up by recalling its Fifth Mandao Brinof Brigade from the Malaysian border with the explanation that the "physical and technical" confrontation against "a foreign country" had ended...
...West Java, political-action groups representing Indonesian students and other civic organizations joined forces to demand that the Provisional People's Consultative Congress fire Sukarno as the nation's lifetime President, call elections to replace...