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...JAKARTA: How's Habibie doing? The new Indonesian president's cabinet appointments -- seen as the first test of Suharto's sucessor and his ability to survive -- drew a lukewarm response when they were unveiled here Friday morning. Out: Suharto golf buddy Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, as well as the former president's extremely unpopular daughter Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done...
...JAKARTA: Charred bodies, still clutching looted televisions. Police firing into crowds of student protesters. The death toll over 200 and rising: This is President Suharto's Indonesia; and no one, even his former allies, seems to want him in charge anymore...
...rioting alone won't topple Suharto. But it's making the military nervous. And the military doesn't like being nervous. "The army is really starting to lean on Suharto to step aside into a figurehead position," says TIME correspondent Terry McCarthy, reporting from Jakarta. "It could happen soon...
Armored vehicles rumble through Jakarta?s burning streets, empty except for implacable rioters; the value of the currency plummets with the rising death toll, foreign diplomats evacuate their families, and the aging dictator talks about getting ?closer to God.? Indonesians could be forgiven for thinking the impossible had become the inevitable -- that Suharto was about...
...likely that there'll be any signs of a move against Suharto until it?s over.? At the same time, Dowell warns, ?Suharto is a brilliant politician and has all the instincts to come out on top in any battle for power.? All of which means Jakarta may continue to burn for some time...