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  • All those words in italics represent an acknowledgement that it would appear that women had, indeed, complained - albeit not in writing or via formal procedures - about the way they had been treated by a man who was either their boss or could influence their future political career.

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  • Habibie, has allies who control the ruling political grouping of Golkar, the man who succeeded Suharto is still associated in the minds of many with his former boss, and his popular support is not strong.

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