INDONESIA: Weight Thrower

Gathered in noisy convention amidst the moldering elegance of a onetime Dutch social club, the members of Indonesia's ruling Nationalist Party cheered a handsome man in a black fez and specially designed presidential uniform, who bounced to the rostrum. He was angry.

"We may have been defeated by the United Nations," cried Indonesia's President Soekarno, "but we do not have to beg from them. If we are to get Irian,* we must have power, power, power and more power." More significant than anything Soekarno had to say to the Nationalists last week was the eloquent fact of his presence....

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