Looking as nonmilitary as he could in blue business suit and Moslem petji cap, the new President of Indonesia stared steadily down at his prepared text. "We will firmly uphold the principles of democracy," he told 828 mem bers of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress. "We are determined to carry out the wishes of the people." General Suharto, 46, had just been elected to a five-year term as President but the wishes of the people had little to do with it. Despite his promises of popular rule, Suharto last week assumed...
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