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During the first years of his imprisonment for leftist views by the military regime of General Suharto, Pramoedya, as the 71-year-old writer is known, was forbidden to have books and writing materials. The prohibition (enforced for all jailed intellectuals) was deadly serious, and at his hard-labor camp on the island of Buru some prisoners who violated it were executed. Pramoedya's response was to compose his novels orally and recite them to other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could...
DIED. SITI HARTINAH SUHARTO, 72, wife of Indonesian leader Suharto; of a heart attack; in Jakarta. "Madame Tien" was Suharto's closest adviser--unofficially dubbed "Tien Percent" for the cut she was rumored to receive from government contracts...
...more competitive in global markets. But what will happen to the western farming provinces, whose technologies date back to the turn of the century? It's unlikely that the decision-makers in the east will worry much about the fate of hundreds of millions of voiceless peasants; President Suharto and his government probably don't think too much about the economic well-being of the people of East Timor...
...many like an attempt to bust a union that the authoritarian Indonesian government views as dangerously independent. U.S. officials "deplored" Pakpahan's sentence and said Clinton would discuss the case and other "problems in the human- rights area," including the closure of three influential publications, with Indonesia's President Suharto this week...
...wasn't China, but the host country, where 29 East Timorese students continued a sit-in on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to protest Indonesian occupation of their nearby homeland. "We cannot turn away from that cause and we will not," Clinton declared, after Indonesian President Suharto agreed not to harass the students after the U.S. contingent left. (Suharto, not known for his bleeding heart, merely promised to deal with the issue "squarely.") Secretary of State Warren Christopher also met with human rights officials there to express U.S. displeasure with the government's handling of the East...