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...life. But there's something terribly out of whack when three major newspapers base breathless exposes on a March 9, 1993, letter to the President from Mochtar Riady that gives his views on foreign policy, including normalizing relations with Vietnam (which George Bush had begun) and getting President Suharto of Indonesia invited to the G-7 summit (which Clinton didn't do). In fact, what was news was that all Riady got in reply to his missive--and a huge contribution to the Democrats--was a half-page kiss-off. That's a very bad ratio of quid...
...press is also shocked that Mochtar's son James Riady, during a number of Oval Office visits, described by the White House as basically social, praised Clinton's stand on China and urged him to visit President Suharto of Indonesia (as did others and he did). Most social encounters in Washington are part backslap and part business, and these had more of the former than the latter. But because reporters are trying to compensate for charges that they favor Democrats, they are more willing to buy the G.O.P. line that foreign-policy decisions are as open to influence as domestic...
...East Timor in 1975 and annexed it a year later when Portugese troops pulled out in the middle of a civil war, has reviled Horta as a traitor and warned Belo to keep criticism at a minimum or face the consequences when he returns home. The government of President Suharto, who was behind the 1975 invasion, claims the question of East Timor's sovereignty was settled in 1976 when an local Indonesian-backed legislature voted for annexation. Citing millions of dollars spent to develop East Timor's infrastructure, schools and hospitals, Suharto?s government is unwilling to abandon the island...
...cozy world of Arkansas. Within a few years, James Riady was part of Governor Clinton's inner circle of friends. When Clinton became President, that helped James become a minor player in U.S.-Indonesia relations. In 1993 he assisted in setting up a meeting between Clinton and Indonesian President Suharto. This has led human-rights activists and Republicans to accuse Lippo of using its money to persuade the Administration to soften its policy of using trade sanctions to press for better conditions for Indonesian factory workers. While relations between the two countries have warmed up, experts attribute the trend mostly...
PRESIDENT SUHARTO OF INDONESIA Nobel is given to key dissidents of East Timor, which he annexed...