Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...flight of four MIG jet fighter planes, with the red and white markings of the Indonesian air force, flashed over the capital city of Djakarta one day last week. Suddenly, one of the MIGs broke formation and, with spitting guns, dived on Merdeka palace, residence of President Sukarno. Bullets smashed through the roof, and chandeliers exploded into glass splinters. A man whitewashing an outside wall was hit in the shoulder; a sentry fell, wounded in the thigh; two passers-by were hit in the legs...
...trigger-happy Lieut. Mauker comes from revolt-ridden North Celebes, and has been on the police blacklists for some time (his brother was under arrest there for suspected dealings with the anti-Communist rebels). Government officials gulped even more uncomfortably on learning that Mauker had been one of the Indonesian pilots to fly escort for Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet leader came to visit Sukarno last month...
...Sukarno: Indonesian socialism is not a severe socialism. It aims at a good life for all, with no exploitation...
...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...
Eventually, a middle-aged American engineer named Greg Nilson, sightseeing in Hong Kong with his wife, is suckered into smuggling the weapons to anti-Communist rebels in Indonesia. The amateur gunrunner winds up in an Indonesian prison that is not at all sanitary, and when rebels begin to ventilate the building with antitank guns, Nilson is hardly consoled by the thought that the affair will make dandy cocktail conversation back in Wilmington-if he ever gets back...