Word: sumatra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communists might try to sabotage British bases on the island in order to hamper British retaliation in Borneo. Sukarno is also making muscles against Malaya, which would be the dominant state in the new federation. Djakarta has excluded Malayan fishermen from their traditional fishing grounds off the coast of Sumatra. An Indonesian gunboat recently sank a fully laden rubber barge inside Malayan territorial waters...
...with dwindling success, the men who launched the "Colonels' Revolt" in 1958 have held out in Indonesia's remote jungles. But last week the revolt finally spluttered to virtual extinction. While President Sukarno preened himself among his neutralist peers in Belgrade, out of the jungle of northern Sumatra marched Rebel "Premier" Sjafruddin Prawiranegra to give up the fight. Surrendering with him were 34 other top officials of the rebel government...
...revolt had got off to a promising start. It was led by some of the nation's ablest officials, who had been driven to despair by the chaotic rule of affable President Sukarno. From Sumatra to the Celebes, more than 100,000 men flocked to the rebel colors. Demanding more autonomy for the outer islands and prompt suppression of Indonesia's potent Communist Party, the rebels initially got cloak-and-dagger assistance from Washington's ubiquitous C.I.A...
...Sumatra, where the government says a mere 1,500 rebels remain holed up in the jungle, the rebels themselves claim to number 7.000. After a recent hand grenade-throwing incident in the Sumatra town of Padang, nervous government authorities ordered all males to wear shirts tucked into trousers. Worn uncinched, the shirts too easily concealed weapons such as hand grenades. Declared the rebel spokesman: "Another month will mark the third year of our struggle against Djakarta. Our spirits remain high...
Buried Alive. The burial of the body, or even a funeral feast, does not necessarily conclude the obsequies. In parts of Sumatra, bones are dug up and given an annual airing. In Rumania, bones are sometimes dug up after three, five or seven years, taken to church, blessed, and reburied with full rites. And among the Azande, a Congo tribe, graves are opened for less innocent purposes. Tribesmen are apparently subject to dreams in which the dead demand a human sacrifice, and when the tribal oracle approves such a dream, a victim is found, his legs are broken...