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...Washington. "We recommend that clients decentralize if it's practical." Firms with well-known American brands are also being advised to lower their profiles abroad. Philip Morris says it may soon remove its brand names (such as Marlboro and L&M) from delivery vans and sales uniforms in Indonesia...
...that still leaves $10 billion from the bailout package to give out, and airline lobbyists clamoring for the cash. Now Washington finds itself in the same position it?s been in for decades with companies (say, Chrysler), industries (say, S&Ls) and even nations (Mexico, Korea, Indonesia, Argentina?). Namely, once you start bailing, how do you stop? How should a government engineer reforms in its beneficiaries to keep from throwing good money after...
...Today's well-educated extremist, who keeps in touch with his brethren in Algeria or Indonesia through the Internet, doesn't employ the fire and brimstone of the village cleric to justify terrorist acts. Instead, he sees the conspiracy against Islam in geopolitical omens: foreign debt, IMF restrictions, wars against Muslims in Chechnya and Bosnia, and the Palestinians versus Israel. But often this cool rhetoric masks a hair-trigger emotionalism, an angry hurt. As one senior Pakistani police counterterrorism expert, Muhammed Shoaib Suddle, remarked: "What drives people to this madness? It has nothing to do with reality but with...
...coverage of Megawati Sukarnoputri's new role as Indonesia's President [WORLD, Aug. 6] barely hinted at one of the most pressing challenges she faces. Indonesia's forests, perhaps the most biologically rich in the world, are under assault as never before. Between 1985 and 1997, the country lost nearly 50 million acres of forest. In the 3 1/2 years since, an additional 12 million acres or more may have been lost. The biological, social and economic implications are incalculable. As one of her first actions, Megawati can show wisdom and vision by ending the onslaught on Indonesia's forests...
...Former senior militiamen now living in comfort in Jakarta or Kupang remain angry about losing East Timor. "We don't need support from Indonesia; we have the right to fight for our country," says East Timor's last governor, Abilio Soares. According to Indonesian police Brigadier-General Jaki Uly, the former militiamen still have guns. Some parade and drill with Indonesian civil defense units. "Refugees tell us of militia concentrations and training," says the U.N.'s Colonel Rob Holt. Mario Vieira, spokesman for the pro-integration political group Uni Timor Aswain (UNTAS), threatens economic turmoil for the new nation...