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...strikes against Iraq on the grounds that any positive impact these would have would be neutralized by the Arab hostility they would arouse. Washington has also been unable to sell its "smart sanctions" alternative to the U.N. and the administration's promises to invest more in efforts to overthrow Saddam are on the backburner because none of his neighbors take seriously the ineffective Iraqi opposition bankrolled by Washington. Good thing the oil price has stabilized...
...Indonesia, at the moment, is in critical condition. The nation has never recovered from the financial crisis that precipitated the overthrow of Suharto, much less from the resulting political turmoil that has produced three presidents in three years. Hanging over all is the fear that the entire country might descend into a violent disintegration similar to the bloodbath that accompanied East Timor's independence. Separatist rebellions in Aceh and Irian Jaya and inter-communal violence in the Moluccas and elsewhere show that the patchwork of ethnic enclaves that became a nation-state only by dint of their common colonization...
...What then are the prospects for bringing an end to the rolling crisis that has gripped the country since the overthrow of Suharto four years...
...himself with Sukarno. A wise choice, though his family was still marched out of its home at gunpoint by communist forces. Sinar hated the communists for that. "But we got our revenge," he says a little too gleefully, when Suharto purged the communists in the 1960s following Sukarno's overthrow, leading to the deaths of up to a million Indonesians...
...Like The Three EPs, the Beta Band's new CD, 'Hot Shots II'(Astralwerks, July 17), is rock music to nod to. Over the history of rock 'n' roll, artists have demanded audiences do just about everything: dance, overthrow the government, indulge in controlled substances, fight for the right to party, find God; to obey all of those commands you'd have to be superhuman, or at least George W. Bush. Most people aren't willing to follow rock stars' orders anymore, and that might explain the burgeoning popularity of mellow British groups, such as the Beta Band, who demand...