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To: Levante
Suharto, not Sukarno. Sukarno was the one-name wonder who was deposed by Suharto after he was appointed-ironically enough by the man who would later help to overthrow his government-to stabilize the growing unrest in Indonesia.

It's kind of like what happened in Chile, where Pinochet was the chief of staff to the Chilean army and thought to be a loyal, apolitical lieutenant of Allende, but who wound up taking part in the assault on the presidential palace.

By the way, the one name thing in Indonesia is kind of confusing for me too, but I try to follow the news over there, so I guess I have an edge when it comes to following who's who in that crazy archipelago.

56 posted on 05/15/2004 11:59:19 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Except for Mario Cuomo. He's butt-ugly. No two ways about it.)
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To: ItsonlikeDonkeyKong

"Suharto, not Sukarno."

Thanks for the clarification! =)


57 posted on 05/15/2004 12:40:19 PM PDT by Levante
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