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...coup, followed by massacres that killed 500,000 people, and emerged as the country's leader. In this one, economic ruin threatens to topple him. Yet as the rupiah plunges into worthlessness, the nation's debts go unpaid, the International Monetary Fund suspends emergency aid, and students riot in universities, he blithely has himself reappointed to his seventh five-year term as President...
...with the program! That was the message U.S. policymakers delivered to Indonesia and Japan last week as Washington struggled to keep the economic turmoil in Asia from spiraling out of control. In a week of public and private arm twisting, Bill Clinton dispatched former Vice President Walter Mondale to riot-plagued Indonesia, where President Suharto is trying to backpedal from the terms of a $43 billion International Monetary Fund bailout. Among the 70-year-old Mondale's tasks will be to persuade the 76-year-old Suharto to make good on promises to break up monopolies and cartels...
...Yatom?s resignation: ?You expect the Mossad to bug people, and you assume that from time to time they?ll get caught. But with Yatom clinging to his position following the disaster in Jordan, this story proved to be the last straw.? Expect Israeli spooks to be read the riot act by his successor...
...What actually happened...was a police riot," he said...
...generation of Crimson editors, the act ofsummoning riot-equipped police to the Harvard Yardstood as tantamount to treason...