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...have a clue where." Officials fear that such an attack could be launched against any one of a number of American cities. And they are particularly worried about attacks by "conventional" means against the chemical or nuclear infrastructure of the U.S., that would cause widespread toxic or radiological fallout...
With midterm elections only two weeks away, politicians tried to spin the crisis. The G.O.P. "charged that the timing was political and aimed at preventing a Democratic debacle," according to TIME, while in New York the Democratic candidate for Governor attacked the incumbent as soft on fallout-shelter building...
...immediate fallout will not help her cause. Prior to the attack, the country's economy was growing modestly. Analysts now are cutting their forecasts. Chatib Basri sliced his 2003 GDP forecast from 4.4% to 3.7%. (The World Bank estimates that Indonesia needs at least 6% growth to create enough jobs for its burgeoning workforce.) Daniel Lian, an economist at investment house Morgan Stanley, says economic revival throughout Southeast Asia could be jeopardized if investors shun the region. As a result, he says, "Economies would be further marginalized and geopolitical risks raised in a vicious cycle...
...Foreign and even domestic pressure may now leave Megawati no choice but to order a crackdown, and the resulting political fallout will likely make her more dependent than ever on the military. Indeed, her situation begs comparison with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, who was forced by September 11 to choose between the U.S. and his regime's Taliban proteges - a strategic choice challenged by increasingly influential Islamist parties. But from the point of view of those seeking efficient curbing of Indonesian extremism, the laxity shown by Megawati until now may be a symptom of the often volatile diffusion...
...very different reactions. The Crimson was the target of a peaceful protest, and as a result, there has been some progress in rebuilding the bridges to the Asian community that were torched a year and a half ago. At the Daily Evergreen, it is too soon to gauge the fallout of the Filipino article, though the newspaper’s admission of “deep regret” for “gross inaccuracies and poor coverage” ought to go a long way towards alleviating long-term damage to the paper’s reputation...