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...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Jay Branegan with Clinton, Tim McGirk and Maseeh Rahman/New Delhi and Douglas Waller/Washington
...course, so did Suharto. But Habibie's rather tenuous grip on power -- and his early unpopularity with students and opposition leaders -- could give the IMF crucial leverage when it comes to prodding him into difficult decisions. "For now the IMF will wait a while," says Branegan, "and hope that with Suharto gone, Indonesians will be more willing to bite the bullet next time around...
...They're a little sensitive about that," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "And for that reason, they've been very cautious about speaking up while Habibie gets settled in. But they're watching him very closely, and they're certainly not going to turn soft -- they have their own credibility to think...
...Habibie's record in economic matters does not make the IMF particularly sanguine. "He has a long history of exactly the type of vast, expensive white elephant projects that Indonesia needs to start trimming," says Branegan. But so far Habibie is making the right noises: He's dumped Suharto's eldest daughter from his cabinet, along with Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, one of Indonesia's richest men and a golfing buddy of the former president, and has pledged to follow the IMF program to the letter...
...TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's ruling wasn't too surprising legally, considering that such a 'secret-service privilege' was utterly without precedent. But it's another major victory for Ken Starr. "He's yet to lose a procedural battle in the courts," says, "and each one makes his tactics a little harder to criticize." President Clinton was quick to paint the decision as still more evidence of a right-wing world gone mad. "It never occurred to anybody that anyone would ever be so insensitive to the responsibility of the Secret Service that...