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Today the people of Aceh are in a similar situation. They haven't been offered a chance to vote on their fate, but Wahid has an even weaker grip on the nation than Habibie did. Last year Wahid promised a political autonomy and economic package for Aceh. But under pressure from the military, nationalists and Vice President Megawati, Wahid last week issued a Presidential Instruction calling for local officials to reinstate public services and destroy separatist movements using any means necessary...
What evil force has Hollywood in its grip? Nothing as campy as what science fiction can envision, to be sure. The latest tempest in Tinseltown (and no, it’s not J. Lo’s increasingly warped fashion sense) is that the contracts which the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) have with the television and film industry (represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn...
...This standoff, and the planned demonstration, is a problem for Putin, although not a big one. It's not going to shake his grip on Russian public opinion, but he's in a no-win situation. If he uses strong-arm tactics to close the network down, that will create a messy political situation. But if he doesn't, he'll look like he's unable to follow through on his threats. Of course Putin's modus operandi is to deny any knowledge that these things are even going on, but in reality the NTV standoff presents him with...
This latest unrest came at an especially bad time for the Communist Party, as it prepares for its twice-a-decade general congress. Already anxious about maintaining their grip on power, officials sent in army troops who crushed the revolt and quickly sealed off the highlands. At least 30 protesters were arrested. When foreign media were allowed in briefly last week, they were closely followed by a white van filled with local police. Officials blocked reporters' access to protest participants and downplayed the troubles, blaming it on Vietnamese exiles bent on toppling the Hanoi regime. "The extremists tried to trick...
ZIMBABWE Press Crackdown The Zimbabwe government sacked the editors of two state-controlled newspapers and rejected a Commonwealth plan to send a delegation to Harare, as President Robert Mugabe seeks to tighten his grip ahead of elections next year. The chairman of Zimpapers, the government-controlled company that publishes the Herald and Sunday Mail, was dismissed two weeks ago; earlier this year a bomb destroyed the printing press of the opposition Daily News. U.K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned that Zimabwe risked isolation from the Commonwealth by refusing to cooperate with the proposed ministerial visit...