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While Malaysia thrived, few complained about Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's authoritarian inclinations. But the Asian economic downturn has thrown his tactics into new focus. He has come under heavy criticism for his treatment of Anwar Ibrahim, his reformist former deputy, who now sits in Sungai Buloh prison accused of sexual improprieties and corruption, charges Anwar and others in the opposition say are trumped up. President Clinton, who visits Malaysia next week, will avoid meeting Mahathir, partly in response to Anwar's detention. This interview, in which Anwar, pictured at right, responded to written questions, was smuggled out to TIME...
Good idea. Like Allen himself, Tony brings clear vision but no reformist zeal to the business of chronicling celebrity life. It's just something he, like a dwindling few of his fellow citizens, is trying to live with (and in his case, make a living from) as rationally as possible. He guesses that Robin's self-consciousness, her sense that she doesn't belong in the same room with the rich and famous, will play well on TV. She's as addled as anyone in her audience would be in fast company, so of course viewers identify with...
...hasn't. Japan's leaders still show no stomach for revamping their financial system and slashing regulations that coddle business. No one has shown the interest or strength to break the money links between inefficient industries and the ruling party. Party politics and bureaucratic inertia ground down the reformist plans of the last Prime Minister, and he has been replaced by a cookie-cutter party man with what a Tokyo commentator called "all the pizazz of cold pizza...
Unfortunately, it is not likely to get one at the hands of a parliament dominated by communists and nationalists who despise Yeltsin and his youthful reformist ministers. The government was to try again to pass a long-delayed reform package at week's end in a special session of the Duma. Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko has had no more luck than his predecessors in budging the Duma, but now he can plead that this is a genuine crisis...
Last week a Khamenei-controlled court sentenced Gholamhossein Karabaschi, Tehran's reformist mayor and a Khatami ally, to five years in jail on corruption charges. The missile test "could be yet another example of the hard-liners' moving to undermine Khatami," says Kenneth Katzman, a Congressional Research Service expert on Iran...