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...navy; in Jakarta. Santoso replaces hard-liner General Ryamizard Ryacudu and is considered a top candidate to replace the soon-to-retire General Endriartono Sutarto as overall commander of the armed forces. Some see his selection as a move by Yudhoyono to gain greater control over the military, Indonesia's most powerful institution...
...Phuket, Thailand, is the place to which many international journalists scrambled in order to report on the tsunami that hit Asia on Dec. 26. The death toll on the island numbered more than 200, at least half of them foreign tourists. Gradually, the scale of the destruction in Indonesia?which was home to some two-thirds of those killed by the tsunami?trickled into the world's newspapers and onto TV screens. But in those early moments after the disaster, it was the harrowing images transmitted from the most famous beach on Thailand's most famous island that people...
...want. A guide: WHAT KIND OF HELP IS NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work - rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling - has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, care, Save the Children and World Vision. "Emergency aid is vital, but we can't just rebuild the poverty that was there before," says Oxfam spokesman Brendan Cox. "We have to aim for reconstruction plus." HOW DO I PICK A CHARITY? If you already support a charity that works...
...George H.W. Bush, has been making appearances at President George W. Bush's behest to raise private tsunami- relief funds in the U.S. As leader of the U.N.'s reconstruction efforts, he will also be called upon to help mediate conflicts with rebels in the two hardest- hit countries, Indonesia and Sri Lanka...
...Islamic radicals?especially those in Indonesia?who think it's cool to attack Western interests and die for their beliefs should seriously rethink their priorities. The people who are providing much of the aid to Indonesia's devastated Banda Aceh are not the Arabs with their petrodollars or Osama bin Laden with his inherited millions but the Australians, Germans, Japanese and Americans. To terrorist sympathizers and hard-line radicals in South Asia, I pose this question: Where are your terrorist friends when you need them most? Tim F. Peters Kuala Lumpur...