Word: cabineteer
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JAKARTA: How's Habibie doing? The new Indonesian president's cabinet appointments -- seen as the first test of Suharto's sucessor and his ability to survive -- drew a lukewarm response when they were unveiled here Friday morning. Out: Suharto golf buddy Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, as well as the former president's extremely unpopular daughter Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done...
With his nation of 200 million pushed to the brink of anarchy, President Suharto said Tuesday he would end his 32-year reign after reshuffling his cabinet and holding general elections. "I will not be prepared to be elected any more," the 76-year-old leader said in a 15-minute national television address. But important questions -- like just how soon he would give up power -- remain unanswered. Suharto indicated he would stay until a new parliament is elected, which could take at least several months. And if the unrest is quelled before then, he may be persuaded to change...
...While such news is meant to impress the Big Five -- America, Russia, Britain, France and China -- it won't go down well in Islamabad, where Pakistan's parliament and cabinet are at loggerheads over whether to test their own device. "The Pakistanis are saying to the West: Try and stop us from doing this," says McGirk. Now that India has effectively broadcast its ability to wipe out their capital, stopping them just got a whole lot harder. Listen for more loud bangs soon...
WASHINGTON: Poor Alexis Herman. Thanks to jittery attorneys in the Justice Department?s Public Integrity office, the labor secretary becomes the fifth Clinton cabinet member to go under an independent counsel?s microscope. The publicity-wary DOJ lawyers advised Janet Reno to appoint an investigator, and the attorney general agreed -- despite admitting there was ?no evidence clearly demonstrating Secretary Herman?s involvement? in a cash-for-influence scam. Now it?s up to a three-judge court of appeals panel to name the lucky prosecutor...
...because there?s no specific threat of retaliation, Netanyahu?s government believes America doesn?t intend to apply any real pressure,? says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver. So the U.S. proposals won?t even be discussed at Israel?s Sunday cabinet meeting, and the Israeli media is reporting that Washington is prepared to extend its deadline by a week...