After 58 leaderless days, Indonesia had a new coalition government, its 14th in the brief eight years of its existence. The new Prime Minister was goateed Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, 50, who was recalled as Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S. to take the job. Sastroamidjojo had been running up & down the U.S., urging American businessmen to invest in his country.
A look at his Cabinet would hardly reassure most U.S. businessmen.
Catholics, Democrats and Christians were out. So were the Socialists and the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the nation's largest; both have been moderately sympathetic to the West. Solidly in were...
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