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...path was cleared by an apparent consensus among the political elites that saw the withdrawal of two key rivals, armed forces chief General Wiranto and Akbar Tandjug, the head of former president B. J. Habibie's Golkar party. She also has the backing of newly elected President Abdurrahman Wahid...
...making. "Even her own supporters complain privately of her reluctance to dirty her hands," says Hajari. In fact, it?s precisely Megawati?s populist inclination that has the country?s traditional elites ganging up to find a way to keep her out. One way may be to elect Abdurrahman Wahid, better known as Gus Dur, a Muslim cleric and former Megawati supporter backed by the Central Axis coalition of Islamic parties...
...least five other cities, that seemed entirely possible. The question may now be whether Habibie will be forced to give way to martial law and a military junta led by armed-forces chief General Wiranto or to a more progressive coalition of opposition figures, like Megawati Sukarnoputri, Abdurrahman Wahid and Amien Rais. What's certain is that the contest over reform has been radicalized. "The idea of revolutionary change has spread among the students," says a Western diplomat. "Now they shout revolusi rather than reformasi...
...while French and Iranian consular officers supervised the exchange of two passengers. A few moments later, the First Secretary at France's embassy in Tehran, Paul Torri, wearing a tweed sport coat and a scarf against the cold, was in the Falcon en route to Paris. Within 30 minutes, Wahid Gordji, former interpreter at the Iranian embassy in Paris and a suspected member of a terrorist network that killed 13 people and wounded 160 in a wave of bombings last year in France, was also airborne, heading for Tehran...
Tehran and Paris have been at daggers' points since mid-July, when France tried to question Wahid Gordji, an Iranian embassy translator. French police suspect that Gordji, who took refuge in the embassy, is linked to a string of Paris bombings last fall. When French officers surrounded the Iranian embassy to prevent Gordji's escape, Iran sealed off the French embassy in Tehran...