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Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, and it became clear that Indonesia's President Sukarno was at last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea's coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea...
...reconnaissance plane spotted an Indo nesian schooner suspiciously close to New Guinea and chased it away with gunfire...
...Dutch, Indonesia's activity in the area seemed suspiciously like the prel ude to a full-scale invasion, and they rushed reinforcements to the area. Two destroyers and two submarines sped to ward New Guinea from California and Mexico. KLM diverted passenger jets from the Amsterdam-New York run to fly some 1,500 marines out to the Pacific...
...moderator, Dutch and Indonesian delegates fortnight ago had sat down in a quiet room at a secluded estate outside Washington, fenced for three days about Indonesia's demand for control of what they call West Irian. But the Dutch still insisted on safeguards for the rights of New Guinea's Papuan native population...
Suddenly Indonesia's delegate rose and left for home. It was just part of the dis rupting strategy of Indonesia's President Sukarno, whose military patrols soon be gan prowling New Guinea's coastline again. As for calling off the threat of in vasion, Sukarno chuckled, "Truly, I do not want to stop it, for it is a rolling snowball that will run down everything...