A murder attempt on Sukarno was organized by the fanatically anti-Sukarno Darul Islam sect. Sukarno blamed the Dutch.

Like Gilbert & Sullivan’s John Wellington (The Sorcerer) Wells, Indonesia’s President Sukarno is a believer In magic and spells, In blessings and curses And ever-filled purses, In prophecies, witches, and knells.

At a Djakarta diplomatic reception last year, Bung Karno (meaning Brother Karno) showed up in a beautifully tailored white…

The longtime indifference of staidest Dutchmen to one of Europe’s worst red-light districts has recently been shaken by a series of brutal murders.

In front of the 14th century Old Church in Amsterdam lies a half-mile-square district of gabled houses, narrow streets and tree-shaded canals known as De Walletjes (little walls). An evening stroller, glancing into ground-floor rooms, sees what appears to be a succession of genre pictures by Vermeer: in each, a…