Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th century. All the while, he is rhapsodizing, "This is amazing! This is unique! This is fantastique!" In the workshop, with a view across the roofs of Paris, a leatherworker hand-stitches one of four golf bags ordered by a Tokyo real estate developer. The material: fire- engine-red Indonesian crocodile hide. Price: $23,763 each...
...them behind bars for anywhere from 18 to 24 years. In February four other purported conspirators were sent before the firing squad. Those killings prompted a burst of protest from overseas, but despite the outcry the government is going ahead with its plan. According to a close confidant of Indonesian President Suharto's, the next round of executions may take place as soon as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends on April 25. Said he: "Their request for clemency has been rejected, so they will...
Iskandar, 69, is among an estimated 50 Indonesians who remain in prison for their alleged complicity in the 1965 putsch against then President Sukarno. The uprising was launched by junior army officers purportedly in concert with senior members of the now outlawed Indonesian Communist Party. The six detainees expected to be put to death soon are Iskandar and Ruslan Widjayasastra, 72, both party Central Committee members; I. Bungkus, 61, a sergeant in Sukarno's elite security guard; Marsudi, 53, a sergeant major in the air force; Sukatno, 61, chairman of the party's youth organization; and Asep Suryaman...