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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: Worswick who wrote (4819)6/25/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (1) of 9980
 
Mahathir ready to stand down

From: Theotherhalf <mobile@tm.net.my>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.malaysia
Subject: Mahathir ready to stand down
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:43:49 +0000

HONGKONG -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has
said in an interview that he is ready to stand down if he is
the cause of "a lot of distress" to people.

He said this in an interview with the latest Far Eastern
Economic Review, a weekly news magazine, due to be released
today. "I don't think the world needs to sacrifice millions
of jobs just to flush me out, because I will go if I cause a
lot of distress to so many people," he said.

In the interview, Dr Mahathir also said that he had learnt a
lesson from the fall of Indonesia's President Suharto.

"What I have learnt is that it is possible for foreign
people to influence people in the country, agitate them and
cause them to overthrow the government," he was quoted as
saying. -- AFP...
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