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...affront. "There's a war within a war here," says Dostum aide Sayed Kamil. The area's Persian-speaking Hazara aren't happy about taking orders from either the Uzbek Dostum or the Tajik Atta. "We're not going to accept anybody as big brother," says Abdul Wahid, an aide to Mohaqiq, the Hazara military commander. If the tense alliance among these factions collapses, the U.S.'s dreams of a land bridge from Uzbekistan could fall with...
...dollar to 11,000 per dollar in about 90 days. Then came the anti-Suharto revolution, and the beginnings of Indonesian democracy. Then the presidential election, where a plurality of popular votes went to Megawati but the politicians in Jakarta decided to give the Presidency to Abdurrahman Wahid. Then this year another crisis led the same politicians to bring down Wahid and install Megawati into power...
...TIME: Have you been in contact with Wahid? Megawati: No. But I was informed by his doctors that he planned to go abroad...
...TIME: Any word from Wahid himself? Megawati...
...mudslides in northern Pakistan, caused by record rains - 60 cm fell in Islamabad in one day. Iran, too, suffered death and destruction, with some 30 people perishing as torrential rain and hailstorms struck Ardebil province in the northwest. INDONESIA The Long Goodbye Defiant to the end, ousted leader Abdurrahman Wahid finally quit the presidential palace on Thursday, four days after the National Assembly voted him out of office on charges of corruption and incompetence. Once the Assembly removed Wahid as President, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in to succeed him. The defeated Wahid still claimed he was the country...