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...centrifuge capable of producing weapons-grade material. U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton accused Iran of unlawfully continuing its efforts to develop nuclear weapons, a charge that Iran denies. Cleaning Up INDONESIA Drawing fire from anticorruption campaigners, the Supreme Court quashed a corruption conviction against parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung, clearing the way for the head of the Golkar Party - the country's second largest - to enter the presidential race. Tandjung was handed a three-year jail term in 2002 after being found guilty of embezzling $4.5 million in state funds. Up in Arms SOUTH KOREA The National Assembly approved...
INDONESIA Speaker Shut Up Akbar Tandjung, the speaker of Indonesia's parliament and leader of the country's second-largest political party, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to three years in jail. Tandjung was convicted of using $5 million of state funds, earmarked for poverty relief, to finance the 1999 election campaigns of the Golkar party and the President at the time, B.J. Habibie. Although Tandjung said he will appeal, political analysts believe the conviction is likely to dent Tandjung's chances?and Golkar's?in the 2004 legislative and presidential elections...
...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 cry for populist Indonesian politicians. The defendants...
Missing Again. The vagrant MIG flew on to the nearby port city of Tandjung-priok, opened fire at the huge gas tank of the Stanvac Oil Co., missed the tank but wounded 14 people. Next, the plane swept over Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta, made a strafing run at Sukarno's massive Bogor palace, and missed again. With its fuel exhausted, the MIG made a bellylanding in a West Java rice field. As the pilot, Lieut. Daniel Mauker, 28, looking dazed and shaken, stumbled from his Russian-made plane, he was seized...
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