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...ANNOUNCED. OVERTURNED CONVICTIONS for four members of Indonesia's security forces, for alleged crimes against humanity during East Timor's violent 1999 independence referendum in which as many as 1,500 were killed; by an Indonesian appeals court in Jakarta. The decision, made last month but announced on Aug. 6, leaves standing the convictions of just two (both East Timorese civilians) of the 18 originally indicted...
...Kenya, where he worked as a successful economist during Obama’s childhood. His mother, who is white and from Kansas, moved the family to Honolulu, where she raised Obama with her parents. Obama’s mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager, and the family moved to Jakarta for four years...
...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...
Diplomats at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta had front-row seats for COLIN POWELL'S rendition of the '70s disco hit YMCA. The Secretary of State honored the tradition of wrapping up Asia's largest security meeting with a night of entertainment by gyrating his hips and singing (off-key): "President Bush, he said to me: 'Colin, I need you to run the Department of State. We are between a rock and a hard place...