Indonesia: A Message from Morning Star

For a former Tokyo bar hostess, it was indeed an impressive homecoming reception—an official welcoming delegation at the airport, scores of jostling newsmen, photographers, television crews—the works. But after all, beautiful, 25-year-old Ratna Sari Dewi has come up in the world since that day in 1959 when Indonesia's fun-loving President Sukarno decided to make her his third wife.

Dewi, whom the Bung calls Morning Star, had come to Japan to sign a contract with a construction firm for a $3,700,000 hospital to be built in Djakarta with Japanese aid funds. But what seemed uppermost in her mind was dispelling rumors that...

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