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...survive the latest hospitalization, the new rulers of the archipelago came to pay homage and to pray for his recovery. The Golkar party, which Suharto founded and retains the largest bloc in parliament, called for all pending graft charges -pending for a decade now - be dropped. As the ex-strongman lay dying, the health minister instructed all hospitals to provide their best equipment to Pertamina hospital, where Suharto was being treated. But after three weeks, he died of multiple organ failure. He will be buried next to his wife in the central Java city of Solo. It is not clear...
...ways large and small, McCain distances himself from a President whom independents loathe. Bush infamously said he looked into Vladimir Putin's soul when he met the Russian strongman. McCain doesn't explicitly mention it. He just says that all he sees in Putin's eyes...
...Musharraf's bid for a second term as President on constitutional grounds. Within weeks, a nationwide protest movement sprang up, with tens of thousands of middle-class professionals taking to the streets. Musharraf lost his case against the judge in the Supreme Court, and Chaudhry was reinstated. Suddenly the strongman seemed vulnerable...
...equate the atrocities that strongman Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian forces are committing with the horrors of World War II is bizarre [LETTERS, April 26]. The Holocaust was far more atrocious in that a whole population was not only murdered but also degraded through propaganda and concentration camps. What is happening to the Albanians is certainly a catastrophe, but the genocide is on a small scale compared to the Holocaust. DAVID W. PETTY Oregon...
More than eight years after U.S. planes bombed Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo, the small Balkan territory is still legally a part of Serbia. But the province--which has been under U.N. administration since clashes between Serbian forces and secessionist rebels sparked an international crisis in 1999--took another step toward independence this month when the U.N. failed to negotiate a settlement between the two sides before a Dec. 10 deadline. Differences between Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority and Belgrade, which opposes full independence for the province, proved too great to bridge. So too did the gulf between...