Claims extracted
32
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 32 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
I, a very young reporter — back before the Earth cooled — lived in the Indonesia that is now in the news under the headline: “It’s a ticking time bomb.”
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It → cool → headline
Sukarno, a one-named former architectural student at Bandung University, had cobbled together the 17,000 disparate islands, each with its own language, into one country — then known as the Dutch East Indies — that became Earth’s fourth largest.
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that → name → Indies
Me, a then reporter for a little news agency, had done a small interview with Sukarno who was then affectionately called “Bapak,” which is Indonesian for “Father.”
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which → do → Father
Perhaps because I hadn’t known better, I’d made him laugh.
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him → know → ?
His English was good and I asked why he always wore a military uniform.
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he → ask → uniform
Me: “I don’t think so.
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I → think → ?
I think it’s because you know you look handsome in it.”
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you → think → it
Sukarno laughed, and the interview proceeded easily.
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interview → laugh → ?
Months later I am back in New York and the US State Department contacts me.
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Department → contact → me
They tell me that America’s current envoy to Jakarta is Ambassador Howard Jones.
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envoy → tell → Jakarta
And President Sukarno had told the ambassador he wanted to compile an autobiography and that “many men with fat bellies and cigar ashes” down them had wanted to write his story but — Sukarno said: “I only want that lady to do it.
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lady → tell → it
In my apartment vacuuming the living room when the State Department called, I didn’t know Indonesia from downtown Arizona.
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I → vacuum → Arizona
Calls from the ambassador, our State Department, Sukarno’s government never stopped.
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Calls → stop → ambassador
I then spent months studying Indonesia.
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I → spend → Indonesia
I finally flew over and spent the next many years with him.
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I → fly → him
The country he created — his stage.
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he → create → ?
His land — like him — understood that “white people are boring.”
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people → understand → him
Spend time in this magic world and visitors soon learn efficiency is a very minor virtue.
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efficiency → spend → world
Holding a job — a novelty.
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Holding → hold → job
I remember when I desperately needed his photograph.
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I → remember → photograph
Files were locked up.
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Files → lock → ?
Nine weeks to get that photo: It showed the back of Sukarno’s head and only my left arm.
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It → get → head
In our own impersonal way Bapak and I loved one another.
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Bapak → love → one
He, Muslim — allowed four wives — was full up.
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He → allow → wives
He is gone.
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He → go → ?
But if you read today’s headlines, it’s “Warning Lights Flash for Indonesia.”
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it → read → Indonesia
The world’s fourth most populous nation has known conflict, upheaval, disaster.
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nation → know → disaster
I was targeted at one point by anti-Americans.
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I → target → Americans
It was Ambassador Jones who hustled me to safety at 5 a.m.
Decades come, centuries go, I am still in touch with Bapak’s family.
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I → hustle → family
Japanese wife Dewi lives in Tokyo.
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Dewi → live → Tokyo
If pushed I can still remember a few words of Bahasa, their native language.
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I → push → Bahasa
So terima kasih — that’s thank you in their language — for reading this far.
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that → thank → language
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