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Endang Isnanik was stitching away at her sewing machine when she heard news of the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta last month. Though hundreds of kilometers away in Bali, the 32-year-old widow began to cry, remembering the explosion that took the life of her husband in Kuta two years ago. "We cry every time we hear that a bomb has gone off," says the slight mother of three, trembling with an almost vacant look in her eyes. "I still have trouble sleeping...
...Bush, then it deserves to go the way of the Whigs and the Know Nothings. And if Bush gets re-elected, I swear I will never vote Democratic again. Cary A. Wiesner West Branch, Iowa, U.S. Indonesia Is Struck Again Your World Watch item on the suicide bombing in Jakarta made it clear that terrorism is still prevalent in Indonesia [Sept. 20]. That attack came less than two years after the October 2002 bombing on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people. Indonesians today are praying for peace in the region and an end to terrorist activities...
...This all has resonance because Bombay, Mehta says, will be the largest city in the world 11 years from now; what happens there is just a more dramatic instance of what happens in Jakarta and Bangkok and La Paz. And the only people maintaining standards and facilities in this Jacobean society are, almost inevitably, members of the criminal underworld, who run things more efficiently than do their government counterparts. Even judges turn to mobsters for help. "Our motto," a criminal overlord tells Mehta, "is insaaniyat, humanity." When an ordinary, law-abiding citizen comes to Bombay from elsewhere, Mehta shows...
...Iraq. After all, Latham, 43, has pledged to bring Australia's 920 troops in Iraq home by Christmas. That couldn't be further from Howard's position. In addition to supporting the war, Howard - after the Sept. 9 bombing attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 - renewed his support for pre-emptive strikes on terrorist bases, and announced plans for "flying squads" of Australian police to hunt terrorists in the region. But with many voters either opposed to Australia's decision to join the war or uneasy about leaving the fight early, both parties have...
...just those who are present in the mosque, but everyone to unite together after we have been competing for eight months ... to build a better Indonesia." SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO, newly-elected President of Indonesia, speaking to a gathering in a mosque near his home in Jakarta after his landslide win last week...