Word: suhartos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midst of Indonesia?s economic free fall last week, Bill Clinton, in New York City for a fundraiser, delayed Air Force One?s takeoff from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Airport to read the riot act to Indonesia?s strongman, Suharto...
WASHINGTON: President Clinton got into the banking business Thursday night, making a 20-minute call from Air Force One to Indonesia?s President Suharto to urge compliance with the conditions of the $40 billion IMF bailout extended that country -- and to reassure Suharto that increased compliance would result in increased assistance...
Clinton Calms Indonesia A 20-minute phone call by President Clinton to President Suharto appears to have calmed the panic that yesterday sent Indonesia?s currency and stock market tumbling. Elsewhere in Asia, however, the picture looked grim...
...willing to battle the alliance of bureaucrats, business and labor interests that benefited from the old system. Asian governments have been resisting the details in IMF rescues. The bailout of Indonesia has been slowed by the reluctance of officials to act against firms connected to the children of President Suharto...
...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...