[Levante]

I didn't know that about Sukharno. I knew he was anti-communist, but I never realized he went that far.

BTW, in my earlier listing of Allied forces in Vietnam, I left out the Phillipines!

Cheers,
Levante

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Suharto, not Sukarno. Sukarno was the one-name wonder who was deposed by Suharto after he was appointed-ironically enough by the man who would later help to overthrow his government-to stabilize the growing unrest in Indonesia.

It's kind of like what happened in Chile, where Pinochet was the chief of staff to the Chilean army and thought to be a loyal, apolitical lieutenant of Allende, but who wound up taking part in the assault on the presidential palace.

By the way, the one name thing in Indonesia is kind of confusing for me too, but I try to follow the news over there, so I guess I have an edge when it comes to following who's who in that crazy archipelago.