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President Clinton, on a two-day jaunt to Indonesia for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, downplayed U.S. concerns over human rights in China in favor of an issue on which the 18 participating nations could agree -- enforcing the U.S. nuclear-freeze accord with North Korea. After one-on-one talks with presidents and prime ministers of several Asian countries -- including key U.S. trading partners China, Japan and South Korea -- Clinton won pledges for continued pressure on Pyongyang to halt and ultimately dismantle its nuclear program. (The group has already endorsed the deal; Clinton aides are now negotiating...
Corporate leaders are now clamoring for seats on Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane whenever he ventures abroad to drum up trade. Brown -- glad- handing, glib, a kind of uber-Jaycee -- is focusing his efforts mostly on such large emerging markets as Indonesia, South Korea and Latin America. China is the biggest prize: during the next five years, as it struggles to industrialize as rapidly as possible, the People's Republic is expected to go on a $1 trillion shopping spree for foreign technology. Leading a group of 24 U.S. business executives on a whirlwind trip to China two weeks...
...then came another blow: President Suharto of Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation, would not show up. "He fell ill" was the only explanation a conference spokesman gave...
That may soon change. The governments of Guyana and Suriname have begun to open huge tracts of forests for logging by timber and trading companies from Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia. Conservationists around the world are horrified at the prospect, aware that in southern Asia the loggers have ravaged forests, leaving a legacy of eroded hills, silt-choked rivers and barren fields. If such exploitation cannot be prevented in sparsely populated countries like Guyana and Suriname, the environmentalists ask, can deforestation be stopped anywhere? For thousands of years, deforestation has presaged the fall of civilizations. Now, for the first time, humanity...
Eros attributes some of his editorial brashness to his days as a student activist in Germany and Britain, where he was schooled in engineering and filmmaking. When he returned to Indonesia in 1981 after 12 years abroad, he got a massive case of culture shock as he confronted opposition to his Western-inculcated ideas. "I was so overwhelmed," Eros says, "that a doctor advised me to lie down for three months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman...