  A Ford inspector holds a Current
Base Testing meter on the assembly line at the Wayne
Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002.
The automaker is instituting a new system in all of its
North American assembly plants aimed at catching quality
problems before the consumer does. Inspectors, armed
with the handheld computers, lead the inspectors through
a procedure that tests 35 different electrical
components on the 2002 Ford Focus. (AP Photo/Carlos
Osorio)
Southeast Asia to Bounce Back Despite
Calpers's Withdrawal
Frame | 25/02/2002 (21:00)
NEW YORK
(SuratkabarCom) - The decision by one of the biggest
U.S. pension funds to withdraw from four Southeast Asian
markets has damaged sentiment in the short term, but
many other U.S. funds said they will remain and foreign
interest in the region is likely to grow once the
immediate shock is over.
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 Petros Faloutsos, a computer
scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles,
poses by a projected computer image of a skeleton diving
headfirst down a staircase, at his office on the UCLA
campus Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002. Faloutsos, who created
the prototype, believes the animation program one day
will allow virtual stunt artists to replace their
flesh-and-blood counterparts in performing otherwise
deadly feats.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Ex-Pres Back In Indonesia For
Questioning In Graft Case
Frame | 25/02/2002 (20:00)
JAKARTA
(SuratkabarCom) - Former President B.J. Habibie returned
Sunday to Indonesia
from abroad to be questioned on allegations that an aide
misused $3.8 million in government funds in 1999.
Akbar Tandjung, Habibie's former cabinet secretary
and the current Parliament speaker, is accused of
embezzling the money from the state food distribution
agency Bulog. Habibe is a witness in the case and hasn't
been accused of wrongdoing.
Habibie arrived Sunday at Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta
airport from Germany, where his wife receives medical
treatment and where he has spent much of his time since
being voted out of office in 1999.
He already has been questioned once in the case by
Indonesian prosecutors in Hamburg, Germany. Habibie has
said that Tandjung - who now heads the Golkar Party -
was responsible for distributing the funds, intended for
relief work.
Tandjung is accused of diverting the funds to
election campaigns for Golkar, Indonesia's
second-largest party and once the political machine of
former dictator Suharto.
Tandjung claimed he passed the money to a
humanitarian foundation, but an investigation by state
prosecutors found that the money didn't reach its
intended recipients.
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Japanese customer Atsushi Ishizaka, left, receives his
Xbox from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at a Tokyo shop Friday
morning, February 22, 2002 as Japanese musician Yoshiki,
behind Gates, looks on. The U.S. computer giant put on sale
its newest video game console on the Japanese domestic market
Friday. (AP Photo/Atsushi Tsukada)
Malaysia PM Vows Action Vs Any Involved In
Attacks Abroad
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