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...Tommy Suharto could at least pretend to be worried. After all, Jakarta's onetime crown prince and playboy-in-chief had just sat through the first few days of his trial for the murder of a Supreme Court Justice last year. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. But life in Jakarta's maximum security penitentiary seems to agree with the 39-year-old Tommy, the youngest son of Indonesia's former dictator Suharto. After four months in prison awaiting trial, he arrived for the opening legal arguments last week at a central Jakarta courthouse looking rested...
...ribbons than crafting policy, the daughter of the man who founded Indonesia could badly use a bit of Dad's populist charm in dealing with Indonesia's myriad woes: economic stagnation, religious violence, allegations of terrorist networks, not to mention several secessionist movements. The high profile trials of Tommy Suharto, House Speaker Akbar Tandjung, 18 military officers accused of human rights abuses during East Timor's transition to independence, as well as a handful of ordinary corruption cases have served as symbolic reminders that she stands for-or used to, anyway-reform and clean governance, long the rallying...
...Baywatcher's early series, Knight Rider, set to become a movie. Slight change: talking car Kitt will be amphibious and stuffed into a red thong TOM PETTY Heartbreaker inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Whenever enshrinements of geriatric rockers are announced, we think: who cares? Losers TOMMY SUHARTO Former strongman's son goes on trial in Indonesia for murdering a judge. One can only pity the jurist who gets to hear this case PETER BUCK R.E.M. star charged for drunkenness on a plane. This will actually increase his likelihood of making the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...CHARGED. HUTOMO MANDALA PUTRA, 30, better known as Tommy Suharto, youngest son of the former Indonesian dictator, with the murder of a Supreme Court judge who in September 2000 sentenced him for graft; in Jakarta. Tommy has been in detention since November and is scheduled to face trial this month...
...Dutch army in 1948 and joined the guerrillas fighting for Indonesia's independence. Once that was achieved, he became a lifelong advocate for persecuted opponents of the country's government, and was jailed several times on charges of organizing illegal political protests during the military-backed rule of President Suharto. DEATH REPORTED. Of JONAS SAVIMBI, 67, veteran leader of Angolan rebel group unita, killed in a gun battle with government troops, according to the army; in Angola's remote Moxico province. Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966 to fight Portuguese colonialism, but when the country gained independence in 1975 he lost...