Word: indonesianness
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...result of this family asset, I sometimes get lazy and don't bother interviewing the man or woman in the street. If I want to know what Americans think, I ask my father. So, Dad, what do you make of all this fuss about campaign-spending abuses and Indonesian billionaires? "Ah, they both do that stuff," he says."It's the system." And what about the attacks on Clinton's character? "You know, I don't like to hear about that kind of thing...
...doing Internet hookups and the other, who was suspended as a vice chairman of the D.N.C.'s financial committee two weeks ago after it was disclosed that he had solicited an illegal $250,000 from a South Korean firm and a questionable $425,000 from an Indonesian couple...
...Justice Department began reviewing allegations of campaign finance violations. Huang organized a slew of hefty campaign contributions totaling $4 to $5 million, some of which have already turned out to be illegal. In late September, he arranged a $250,000 campaign donation which was subsequently returned, and donations from Indonesian industrialists and prominent Asian-Americans are under scrutiny. -- Terence Nelan
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...
...with the cozy world of Arkansas. Within a few years, James Riady was part of Governor Clinton's inner circle of friends. When Clinton became President, that helped James become a minor player in U.S.-Indonesia relations. In 1993 he assisted in setting up a meeting between Clinton and Indonesian President Suharto. This has led human-rights activists and Republicans to accuse Lippo of using its money to persuade the Administration to soften its policy of using trade sanctions to press for better conditions for Indonesian factory workers. While relations between the two countries have warmed up, experts attribute...