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The NYT and WP both run inside stories, albeit with different slants, on Germany's down-to-the-wire race for Sunday's elections.
Abdulsalam Abubakar has called elections for early next year and pledged to relinquish power to a civilian government by May.
An editorial in the Jakarta Post declared the elections "a triumph for the Indonesian people and democracy," but in light of predictions that Golkar would poll strongly in the country's outer islands and might be able to hold on to power with the help of small Islamic parties, the Post said, "It would be a hollow victory and a terrible irony if our exercise in democracy failed to produce the very goal of the whole process: Voting out the status quo and putting a proreform government in its place."
This was the second union election at Fieldcrest's factories in six years, and the first in which the company faced UNITE, the newly invigorated textile workers' union that, in the last 18 months, has won 29 of 34 union elections in the South.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard came under strong attack both at home and in Asia for his failure to curb the political momentum of the racist, anti-Asian One Nation Party, which won nearly a quarter of the votes in elections in Queensland this weekend.