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...Will the coalition stay together for an assault on Iraq and the ouster of Saddam Hussein...
...Megawati's father, President Sukarno, who had steered the nation to independence in 1945, was overthrown in a bloody coup in 1965. The new dictator, Suharto, was viewed by Washington as the indispensable strategic counterweight to Chinese ambitions in Asia. Today, three years after Suharto's ouster, the fate of Indonesia may be even more critical for a U.S. administration that envisages long-term strategic competition with China...
...enraged crowd gathered in downtown Belgrade, loudly protesting and beating up foreign journalists - but contained: There were never more than about 2,000 people gathered in Central Square in support of Milosevic, in contrast to the hundreds of thousands that had gathered there in the past to demand his ouster. And although President Kostunica had warned that he would resign from his ruling coalition if Yugoslavian law was not observed in the case, he gave no indication that he would allow the issue to force fresh elections...
...with secessionist rebellions - and his decision to bow to Western pressure and decolonize East Timor - angered the generals, Megawati made common cause with them as heiress to the nationalist mantle of her father, Sukarno, who had been Indonesia's first president. Last week, Wahid sought to head off his ouster by offering to transfer most of his authority to Megawati, but the Vice President and her backers appear to have decided to go for broke: She stormed out of the cabinet meeting 15 minutes after Wahid made his offer...
...indications are that it will be - the chances are that he'll be removed from office sometime in August. But right now, few are seeing Megawati as the answer to Indonesia's continuing economic and ethnic turmoil. Which means that as messy or tranquil as Wahid's ouster may be, it's unlikely to usher in an era of calm...