Word: alie
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Indonesians sometimes view their political power struggles as a kind of wayang, the traditional all-night puppet show in which the villains die at dawn. For four main players in President Suharto's government, dawn finally came last week. All were generals, and two of them-Ali Murtopo and Sudjono Humardani-were members of the hated Aspri, the influential kitchen cabinet. One non-Aspri was General Sutomo Yuwono, head of the internal intelligence agency. The other was General Sumitro, boss of the security force Kopkamtib. Suharto stripped him of the Kopkamtib command and took personal charge of the secret...
...that had left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General Ali Murtopo-who had been accused of corruption and burned in effigy by students -must be to eliminate the country's "intolerable subversive elements...
...like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe he was afraid someone might take him at his word and plug him in. Goldin did his best to exude energy during his inaugural address, though, punching the air as though he hoped to grow up to be Muhammad Ali and setting a new city record for irrelevant Biblical quotations in a single speech. But it just wasn't the same, somehow, Goldin had become an old dynamo...
...first Ali-Frazier fight was everything it was billed to be. This one is not likely to measure up as well. Since the last contest, both fighters have shown distinct signs of slippage. Ali has lost the zip of his youth, if we are to judge from his two lackluster performances against Norton, and Frazier was pathetically outgunned against Foreman...
...Ali no longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...