Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Half a world away, on the Indonesian island of Java, hundreds of rural families have mounted small, silvery panels on poles near their homes. Made of silicon semiconductor chips similar to the microprocessors found in computers, the solar cells convert the energy of sunshine into electricity. These almost magical devices make it possible for people living a day's walk from the nearest power lines to turn on light bulbs, radios and TV sets for the first time...
...clothes! Last week Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien chose for his guests a brown elk leather, $400 Roots flight jacket, each personalized with the summiteer's name, title and apec logo, and cut to size (Clinton's: XXXL, tall). Such outfits--a Philippine barong tagalog in 1996 and an Indonesian batik shirt in 1994--are now high on the agenda. Host countries "check out the President's size pretty carefully," says the White House...
...easy are now strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down 5.8% just last week.) "Looks like it's going to get worse and worse before there's any chance of its getting any better...
...Indonesian Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad said the bailout would bring "firm and timely" action. "The government firmly believes that these policies and programs will be effective in restoring the health of the Indonesian economy so as to improve the welfare of the people and alleviate poverty," Mar'ie said...
...tonight." At another he praises John Huang, the Democratic fund raiser who solicited a good part of the contributions that have since been returned by the party as questionable or worse. In the Oval Office we also see Clinton courting James Riady, whose family controls the Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate with major projects in China, and questionable D.N.C. contributions. And then there is the Boris-and-Natasha moment, when Clinton is greeted by Arief Wiriadinata, the Indonesian gardener who with his wife somehow contributed $450,000 to the Democrats--later returned--and who tells the President, "James Riady sent...