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...through cleverly designed U.S. subsidiaries. Last week the Wall Street Journal and columnist William Safire of the New York Times reported that the Democratic Party had collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from relatives and employees of the Riady family, which heads the $6 billion Lippo Group of Indonesia. Although the party and the donors denied violating the foreign-contributors ban, Republicans on Capitol Hill say they plan to hold hearings to examine any favors the Clinton Administration did for Lippo...
...wider world, East Timor is a geopolitical footnote, a mere half of an island that became a short-lived nation, born in fratricidal guerrilla war and eventually swallowed by its giant neighbor Indonesia. For 21 years, despite reports of abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject mostly for diplomatic specialists. Its exiled representatives looked in vain for support, literally knocking on doors that refused to open. And then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating...
Clinton should come clean about the ethical lapses in his administration, including Filegate, Whitewater and campaign finance irregularities. He should answer questions about undermining of civil liberties that has occured on his watch and his failure to pressure nations such as China and Indonesia to improve their dismal human rights records. Dole should delineate some of the spending cuts that will be necessary if his tax cut plan is enacted. He should also discuss the unprecedented access he and other Republicans granted to lobbyists for polluters who sought to rewrite environmental regulations...
Some human rights groups claim that as many as 200,000 people were killed as a result of the occupation, and Indonesia has crushed most resistance movements since...
They are also working to promote a bill currently in the Massachusetts legislature that would limit corporations based in the commonwealth from trading with Indonesia, he added...