Soeharto versus 'Time'

Soeharto versus 'Time'

Soeharto's blustering accusations of "slander" against Time
magazine are misinformed. What he means is libel. Slander is
defamation by word of mouth -- and in view of his outrage at this
alleged libel, perhaps the old legal adage, "the greater the
truth, the greater the libel" applies. To paraphrase Shakespeare
(Macbeth), methinks Soeharto doth protest too much.

The extraordinary dragging of their feet on the part of the
President and his so-called Attorney General in the matter of
investigating "Soeharto Inc." (as Time has it) makes one wonder
if maybe the ex-dictator has diverted a few of his millions of
dollars into numbered Swiss accounts for his old cronies as the
price for their inaction.

JAMES RICHARDS

Jakarta