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...couple of months would have qualified for permanent residency in Hong Kong. Since 1996, the Morrisons and their respective magazines have overseen some of the most historic developments on the continent, including the handover of Hong Kong to China, the Asian financial crisis and the fall of Suharto. Says Ann, who came to TIME from FORTUNE magazine: "What will I miss least? Press controls in many of our major markets." "We've lived in Europe before," says Don, "so it holds no terrors for us--except the prospect of explaining European monetary union...
CHARGES DROPPED. Against former Indonesian President SUHARTO, 79; in Jakarta. Judges pronounced the ailing ex-strongman medically unfit to face corruption charges. Earlier in the week his youngest son Hutomo ("Tommy") Mandala Putra, 37, was fined $3.5 million and sentenced to 18 months in jail for corruption; Hutomo's lawyers will appeal...
When a bomb went off in the basement of the Jakarta Stock Exchange last Wednesday, killing 15, few Indonesians had any doubt what group was behind it. It was the third bombing in as many months to hit just as former dictator SUHARTO and his family were scheduled to be questioned about corruption allegations. The dilemma facing President ABDURRAHMAN WAHID: how to deal with a powerful, well-connected family that will stop at nothing to protect itself. The next morning, a confidant of the President's urged that he "cut off the head of the snake"--meaning, take direct action...
CHARGED. EX-INDONESIAN PRESIDENT SUHARTO, 79, ailing political strongman now under house arrest; with embezzling up to $570 million from state coffers; in Jakarta. Suharto's lawyers claim he's mentally unfit to stand trial...
...message of Pinochet and Suharto's plight is plain to see for all who rule by force: As long as you're holding the guns, people will cut you a deal, but if you've committed crimes against humanity, don't expect them to keep their end of the bargain once you've lost your power. In other words, tyrants planning on retirement are well advised to take some acting classes and work on doing a believable senile dementia...