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Robert F. Kennedy 1925-1968 --As U.S. Attorney General for his brother and later Senator from New York, he worked to fight poverty and promote civil rights --Wife Ethel created the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, a foundation that fights poverty and human-rights abuses...
...TIME, in his first U.S. interview since his legal woes began. "I want the rhetoric to be stripped away and the truth to emerge, and it will." Though he declined to answer specific charges on the advice of his attorney (who was present during the interview), Drabinsky claims in general that he was too busy running the company's creative affairs to pay much attention to the books. "It's not humanly possible that someone as involved as I was in the production of shows, the creation of new shows, the marketing of shows, the building and restoration of theaters...
...among the country?s power centers, including the military, the ruling Golkar party (which polled 22 percent) and a plethora of smaller parties. Thursday?s announcement follows indications that the military may have offered to back her in November?s electoral assembly, in exchange for making armed forces commander General Wiranto her vice president. Despite its traditional relationship with the dictator Suharto and Golkar, the military is concerned that denying Megawati the presidency would provoke widespread instability. Thousands of her supporters last week demand that she be elected president by signing petitions in their own blood...
...military?s concern to put an end to last year?s riots that led General Wiranto to gently nudge Suharto out of power and to commit the country to elections. But Suharto?s handpicked heir, President B.J. Habibie, and his Golkar party potentially have sufficient support in the electoral assembly -- due to set-asides for the military and regional representatives -- to block Megawati?s accession. Despite her call for Suharto to be prosecuted for abuses of power, there?s unlikely to be an accord on her taking the presidency unless she gives some guarantee of immunity to the masters...
There may have been no ticker tape parade for General Wesley Clark, but that doesn?t mean he?s getting the military version of a pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...