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That increasingly bitter divide between the government and the people will not be easily healed. Habibie has survived on the instability of the forces jockeying for a place in the new Indonesia--pro-democracy leaders, Muslim activists, students and the armed forces. Few of those factions are likely to come...
In an effort to reassure the moneymen and political lenders on whom Indonesia's economic revival depends, Habibie announced a new "reform and development" Cabinet that conspicuously dropped the most prominent of Suharto's cronies, and pledged to develop a government "free of corruption, collusion and nepotism." Few of Habibie...
AMIEN RAIS Muslim leader directs the largely peaceful protests that topple Suharto, earns a future role
It is a sad testament to the nature of power in Indonesia that the country must again be brought to the brink of disaster before leadership can be transferred. There is little argument that Suharto's rule is coming to an end. Said Amien Rais, a key opposition figure who...
On the other hand, Agnew deserves harsher criticism than he has recieved. His harangues against the press did not merely "rais[e] issues of media bias, arrogance and unaccountability that are still banging around," as Lance Morrow wrote last week in Time magazine. Agnew was the point man in Nixon...