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East Timor has strained the traditional U.S.-Indonesia alliance, although you wouldn't think so to hear Indonesian leaders talk about it. Defense Secretary Cohen on Thursday sternly warned the Indonesian military to clean up its act during a meeting in Jakarta with armed forces chief General Wiranto. But while Cohen?s statement after the talks accused the Indonesian military of abetting violence in East Timor and warned it to mend its ways, the official Indonesian account of the meeting claimed that the U.S. Defense Secretary had expressed "appreciation for the army?s commitment to human rights and democracy...
...Australians, because that would require the support of at least elements of the Indonesian government." A rising nationalist backlash in Indonesia over the East Timor debacle won?t help the prospects for peace in East Timor. And the disconnect between the statements issued by Cohen and Wiranto after Thursday?s meeting could spell trouble...
Some justice came for Ovando last week, as officials began unraveling a scandal that goes beyond him. On Thursday, at the unusual request of the deputy district attorney, a judge dismissed Ovando's case. Ovando returns to what is left of his life and the bittersweet joy of seeing his daughter for the first time. She was born while he was in jail...
...tactical retreat. Indonesia?s government on Friday rescinded a controversial new law granting the army sweeping powers, only one day after approving the legislation that had been sponsored by the military. Three people were killed and scores injured in two days of protest against the bill that began Thursday, and a military spokesman said Friday the law had been withdrawn because "half the people do not understand its contents." The climb-down is a second humiliation for the Indonesian military only five days after it was forced to accept foreign peacekeepers' taking control of its old stamping grounds in East...
...that toddlers across the nation are shrieking their lungs out. On the one hand, they?re chalking up the highest-ever rates of childhood immunizations, and on the other they?re bemoaning the fact that so many kids still remain out of reach. According to numbers released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, in 1998, 80.6 percent of children 19 to 35 months had the complete series of recommended shots for the big three of childhood disease: measles, polio and tetanus/diphtheria. That?s up from 76.2 percent only four years ago. The downside, of course, lies in the remaining...