For three weeks, while his revolt-torn country rocked along with no government other than himself. Indonesia's President Sukarno sat back and bided his time. His own choice, a hapless politician named Suwirjo, tried in vain to form a new government, but gave up, muttering: "Thank God it's over."
Then Sukarno stepped boldly into the breach he himself had opened. As Djakarta's sunset gun heralded an end to the day's fasting for the Moslem Ramadan, Sukarno summoned 69 leading Indonesian politicians and 60 of his top-ranking military leaders through a driving tropical downpour...
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