INDONESIA: That Woman of Solo

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Last week, buckling before the demands of women's organizations, Premier Harahap authorized a special commission to establish a protocol "governing the married life or lives" of the President and other top officials. The unrelenting women were busy scouring Java for copies of a book which Soekarno had written in his more dispassionate days, vigorously advocating equal rights for women in the new Indonesia. They hoped to fill a truck full and dump the volumes on the President's lawn. Cried one militant lady: "Before we are finished, Mme. Hartini will know her rightful place, and we will have struck a blow for all future generations of Indonesian women."

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