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DIED. SITI HARTINAH SUHARTO, 72, wife of Indonesian leader Suharto; of a heart attack; in Jakarta. "Madame Tien" was Suharto's closest adviser--unofficially dubbed "Tien Percent" for the cut she was rumored to receive from government contracts...
...time of the third were of early retirement, Berkeley chancellor Chang-Lin Tien was still trying to put the best possible face on the departures...
...addition, one local newspaper reported at the time that Tien had threatened to resign if the Incentives were not instituted...
...says General Vo Nguyen Giap, the top North Vietnamese commander, "the key was April 21, when Thieu resigned. Then I knew, we all agreed, we had to attack immediately, seize the initiative." That night at the NVA's forward headquarters in Loc Ninh, 75 miles from Saigon, General Van Tien Dung, commanding the armies moving on the capital, gave the go-ahead to start the climactic offensive...
Asia's new willingness to invest in long-term research reflects not just its recent economic boom but also a radical shift in social outlook. "Thirty years ago, when the average person needed rice and bread, who could talk about science?" asks Weichen Tien, head of the Development Center for Biotechnology in Taipei. "Today science is viewed as a necessity...