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Wahid fails to meet Indonesia's 3 key leaders JAKARTA Feb. 18 Kyodo - A four-way meeting that had hoped to ease rising political tensions in Indonesia was abandoned Sunday when President Abdurrahman Wahid was the only one to turn up. The event, organized by a prominent Muslim preacher, had hoped to bring together Wahid with Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, House Speaker Akbar Tanjung and the chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais. Wahid expressed his regret for the absence of the three other leaders and called for the public to remain calm amid the escalating tension nationwide. ''There have been demonstrations of support and protest. But I predict they won't continue after the month of April. After that we will rebuild and improve our country,'' he told the audience who had turned up for Sunday's event. According to organizers, the three failed to give their reasons for not showing up. The failed meeting follows another aborted attempt to bring together the nation's four most powerful leaders by alumnae of a prominent university student leaders association last week. Massive pro- and anti-Wahid protests have been escalating across the country since the House of Representatives censured the president on Feb. 1. Huge pro-Wahid rallies recently held in Wahid's stronghold province of East Java resulted in at least seven offices of the former ruling Golkar party being burned down. Golkar, also chaired by Tanjung, is the second largest party after Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-Perjuangan). Political analyst Azyumardi Azra said the four should meet as soon as possible to discuss how to calm their supporters. ''Even if they are just seen sitting together without having a concrete result, it will ease the conflict among the public,'' he said in an interview with a local TV station on Sunday. On Friday, thousands of students blocked the main gate to the prestigious University of Gadjah Mada and prevented the president from entering the campus. In Indonesia's South Sulawesi Province, anti-Wahid student protesters removed thousands of presidential photographs hanging in government offices across the province. Wahid has repeatedly said he will stay in power until the end of his term in 2004. February 18, 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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