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Wahid refuses to quit JAKARTA, Feb 2: A defiant Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Friday rejected mounting calls for him to step down a day after being hit with a politically-damaging censure by parliament over two financial scandals. "No, I will not resign. I'm here as a president and I will remain a president until my term ends" in 2004, the 60-year-old Wahid said after Friday prayers here. Earlier in the day Wahid apologised to the public for the tension caused by his political disputes with the legislature, which have dogged his shaky 15-month government. But he said the conflicts were part of a democratic learning curve. "I apologise to the people for the inconvenience created during the current process of political education and the events at the parliament," Wahid told a brief press conference at the state palace. Presidential spokesman Wimar Witoelar also said Wahid now felt free to push ahead with reforms without having to make political compromises. "The president now feels that he is not supported (by his former allies). This will allow him to implement reform programmes all out," he said, as Wahid met some of his top military leaders. Wahid also continued to insist on his innocence in the two multi-million-dollar financial scandals - one dubbed Bulogate and the other Bruneigate - and said he was disappointed with parliament's acceptance of a report which found he "may have been involved" in them. Bulogate concerns the theft of 3.9 million dollars from the state food agency Bulog, allegedly by Wahid's masseur, Alip Agung Suwondo. Bruneigate centres on Wahid's lack of accounting over a two-million dollar donation from the Sultan of Brunei which Wahid has claimed was a personal gift. The Indonesian press on Friday quoted several political observers joining mounting calls for Wahid to resign voluntarily and hand over to his vice president, Megawati Sukarnoputri. "It's better for (Wahid) to resign than wait until the MPR (upper house) sets up a special session to impeach him," influential religious scholar Nurcholish Madjid told the Jakarta Post. Several executives of Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) suggested a compromise. Wahid, they said, should step aside not down, leaving Megawati to run the government.-AFP February 2, 2001 |
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In a general sense, in the long, venerable life of Electronic Arts' FIFA series, each new version of the game looks and plays a little bit better each year, with a few odd years missing the boat here and there. But with the introduction of Sony's PlayStation 2, EA truly has been able to capitalize in full on the things it's worked so hard on doing each year -- improving AI, creating more realistic looking players and improving their animations, and creating a sense of depth, play balance, and realism.
Believe it or not, the PS2, or EA's early understanding of the PS2, has helped its soccer development team to realize the game's potential more than ever before. With this game, more polygons onscreen doesn't necessarily only mean "more of everything." With FIFA 2001, the game not only looks better because of more polygons, but it animates better, it's more realistic, and it flows very closely along the lines of reality to persuade and entrance our eyes, and therefore, our minds, into believing its fluid lifelike existence. Like a well-orchestrated concerto, EA's FIFA has come together better than ever before, and just like Madden NFL 2001 was to the sport of football, FIFA 2001 has become to the sport of soccer -- the best soccer of its kind on any system.
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