Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems ready to re-examine private behavior, for example Dole's sudden divorce from his first wife or allegations about Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. In fact, under the current rule of confining scrutiny to "public character," only Clinton's is in play (Craig Livingstone, Whitewater pardons, Indonesian money), not Dole's (Nixon and Iran-contra pardons, Dwayne Andreas' money, former financial adviser David Owen's jail term...
Last week Dole and his G.O.P. colleagues cast indignant scrutiny on the most ornate of the foreign-money controversies, in which donors connected with an Indonesian conglomerate gave large sums to the D.N.C. While no money-for-favors linkage was immediately apparent, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans called for a probe into the curious circumstances. Among them: Last year the White House sent a routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after...
...fearlessly asked the U.N. to support a referendum in East Timor, and he has criticized Indonesia's policy of importing non-Timorese migrants to the island. After the massacre of some 200 protesters in 1991, Belo loudly called for a commission of inquiry. He has said the Indonesian military had planned, but failed, to assassinate him twice, in 1989 and 1991. But he has also condemned Fretilin for the massacres it led in 1975, which he blames squarely on Gusmao...
...neither forgotten nor forgiven. While he still advocates a referendum, the bishop is not as confident as Ramos-Horta seems to be about its outcome. Many East Timorese, he says, may even choose union with Indonesia. He offers an alternative to a potentially violent referendum: East Timor as an Indonesian province with special autonomy...
...prize is divided--and so are its winners. Meanwhile, a shamed Indonesia remains East Timor's overlord. An agitated Belo asked TIME last week, "Who will be able to expel the Indonesian forces from here...