Word: spaeth
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...provinces, means that despite the vote, the next president will be decided in backroom deals. "Many fear that the complicated mechanics of electing a president, designed by Suharto to minimize direct public participation, will be used to nullify Megawati?s electoral victory," says TIME Asia correspondent Anthony Spaeth. And that, of course, would leave Megawati?s supporters, who played the central role in the street protests that dispensed with the dictator, profoundly dissatisfied. Last week Megawati supporters all over the country were signing petitions demanding the presidency for their leader. The fact that they were signing in their own blood...
...tons, as well as establishing the first quota ever for small coastal sharks and banning commercial harvests of five species considered especially prone to overfishing--whale, basking, white, sand tiger and bigeye sand tiger. Outraged fishermen have responded by suing the Secretary of Commerce. Conservation is important, agrees Robert Spaeth, head of the Southern Offshore Fishing Association, but he argues that shark populations are difficult to count accurately--an assertion biologists agree with--and that the government's statistics are therefore suspect...
...Anthony Spaeth. Reported by Michael Creadon/Sydney and Michael Shari/Jakarta
...Anthony Spaeth. Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi and Mia Turner/Beijing
Contributors: Robert Ball, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Anthony Spaeth, George M. Taber, Rod Usher...