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U.S. Act As Tension Rises In Indies (Geraldton Guardian, 12 Oktober 1965)

U.S. Act As Tension Rises In Indies (Geraldton Guardian, 12 October 1965), duplicate

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Geraldton Guardian, 12 Oct 1965, p. 1: wire report on rising tension as the Army purges Communists. Mentions a Radio Indonesia broadcast, via Radio Malaysia, that a crowd burned down the Aceh office of the Communist women's organisation Gerwani; Soviet leaders warn Sukarno against attacks on Communists; the US evacuates embassy families.

Geraldton Guardian, 12 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1: berita kawat tentang meningkatnya ketegangan saat Angkatan Darat menumpas komunis. Menyebut siaran Radio Indonesia, lewat Radio Malaysia, bahwa massa membakar kantor organisasi perempuan komunis Gerwani di Aceh; pemimpin Soviet memperingatkan Sukarno agar tak menyerang komunis; AS mengevakuasi keluarga staf kedutaan.

“...a crowd had burnt down the office of the Indonesian Communist Women's Organisation, Gerwani, at Atjeh in North Sumatra. (p. 1)”

People

SukarnoLeonid BrezhnevAlexei KosyginAnastas MikoyanHoward GreenK.C.O. Shann

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of IndonesiaIndonesian ArmyUS Embassy in Jakarta

Places

AcehNorth SumatraCentral JavaJakartaYogyakartaCanberra

Topics

1965 coup and aftermathGerwani organisationkillings 1965–66USSR and Eastern Europe

Tags

attacks on premisesarmy in politicsscreening and loyalty oaths

Details

Date
1965-10-12
Creator
The Geraldton Guardian
Publication
The Geraldton Guardian
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
English
Perspective
Western mainstream press
Source role
primary
Country
Australia
Period
1965–1966
Source archive
Trove · source link
Access
open access (Trove) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Australian press (1949-1982) - articles on Gerwani and members (Trove)/The Geraldton Guardian (1965-10-12) - U.S. Act As Tens Rises In Indies [Trove 298273874].txt
OCR / text
Good (0.923) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Australian press (1949-1982) - articles on Gerwani and members (Trove)
Summary basis
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