Gus Dur to meet with Clinton<\/p>\n
BALTIMORE, Maryland (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid is
\nscheduled to meet with U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White
\nHouse, Washington D.C., on Monday (local time), officials said.<\/p>\n
Officials in the presidential entourage said Abdurrahman is
\nscheduled for a 30-minute meeting with Clinton on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
A schedule distributed on Sunday to journalists traveling
\nwith the President on his U.S. visit says that before the meeting,
\nAbdurrahman will first undergo a medical checkup at the John
\nHopkins Hospital here on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The schedule also says that after the meeting, Gus Dur, as the
\nPresident is popularly called, is scheduled to return to the
\nhospital to undergo a second phase of his medical checkup.<\/p>\n
The President is then scheduled to leave for New York on
\nMonday evening.<\/p>\n
The likelihood that Abdurrahman would meet with Clinton was
\nfirst conveyed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Alwi Shihab in Salt
\nLake City on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Abdurrahman said during the meeting that he plans to ask the
\nAmerican anticorruption body to assist with investigations into
\nthe wealth of former top Indonesian officials.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian Attorney General's Office is currently
\nconducting an investigation into the alleged abuse of power by
\nformer president Soeharto, which reportedly allowed certain
\npeople to amass wealth by the issuance of various rulings.<\/p>\n
Abdurrahman said earlier that the information obtained from
\nthe research agency would be used as evidence to bring former
\nstate officials to court.(byg)<\/p>",
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