John McBeth*

Four live rounds, four fatal head and chest wounds. The shots fired at Jakarta's Trisakti University which triggered the mayhem that brought down President Suharto in May 1998 did not come from panicky riot policemen. That much is clear.

They were aimed and they were callous and, as in all successful black operations, they apparently achieved their purpose of lighting a fuse, though it is still not entirely clear whether Suharto's downf