Word: jakarta
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...could be a tight race. "[Yudhoyono] may be the favorite, but it is way too early to count Megawati out," says Indra Piliang, a political analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. "It now depends on who can win the support of the other parties." Indeed, in the event of a runoff between Yudhoyono and Megawati-which will occur if neither wins the required 50% of the vote in the first round-the two finalists will focus much of their attention on trying to woo voters who had supported Wiranto. But with the race still tight...
...nimble political moves-from cutting taxes to abolishing school fees to reshuffling ministers-could win over plenty of skeptics. "If she starts acting like a leader and makes some strong changes to the economy and the Cabinet," says Umar Juoro, of the Center for Information and Development Studies in Jakarta, "she has a chance of winning...
REUNITED. HITOMI SOGA, 45, a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, and her husband, CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS, 64, a former U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting to the Stalinist state in 1965, and their daughters MIKA, 21, and BELINDA, 18; in Jakarta. Soga, who was kidnapped so she could teach Japanese to North Korean spies, hadn't seen her husband or daughters since October 2002, when Pyongyang let her and four other abductees return to Japan. When the family arrived at a Jakarta luxury hotel swarming with journalists, Jenkins, who has lived in North Korea for four...
...Thanks Mr. Secretary, but stick to your day job." The SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, in a headline commenting on U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's performance of the disco hit Y.M.C.A. on the closing day of last week's asean meeting in Jakarta...
...Shahwani brings one other advantage to the job: intimate ties to the CIA. A onetime international athlete who won a gold medal in the decathlon at a 1963 athletic meet in Jakarta, he was sent to the U.S. for Ranger training four years later. By the time of Iraq's conflict with Iran in the 1980s, he had become commander of the Iraqi Special Forces School. During the war, the combat vet led a daring helicopter-borne recapture of Iraq's strategic Kardamand mountain, held by thousands of dug-in Iranian defenders. But Saddam distrusted such displays of talent...