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Saturday, May 29, 1999

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Suharto's son says Time report partially correct

JAKARTA: One of deposed Indonesian president Suharto's sons admitted that a Time magazine report on the family's overseas wealth was ``partially correct'' but said most of it was ``not true''. ``What Time has reported is only partially correct,'' Bambang Trihatmodjo said after he was questioned for four hours at the attorney general's office. Bambang strongly denied he owned luxury mansions in Los Angeles and in Singapore as alleged by Time.

US warns on China travel

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday urged its citizens to be cautious if travelling or living in China as the 10-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches with the Chinese still upset over NATO's bombing of their embassy in Belgrade. ``In view of the 10th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square demonstrations as well as the lingering tension resulting from Chinese reaction to the mistaken May 7 NATO bombing ... American citizens should exercise cautionwhile living or travelling in China,'' the State Department said.

Wife seeks bail for Sethi

ISLAMABAD: The wife of arrested Pakistani editor Najam Sethi filed a petition in the supreme court seeking interim bail for her husband on health grounds, the official APP news agency reported. Najam Sethi, editor of the Friday Times weekly, was arrested on May 8 for alleged anti-state activities. In her petition on Thursday, Jugnu Mohsin said her husband suffered from a heart ailment and high blood pressure. Last week the court asked the government to allow Sethi to meet his family twice a week. The government has said Sethi maligned Pakistan in a speech in India and that he is in the custody of the intelligence service to probe suspected links with Indian intelligence. His family has denied the allegation.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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