TABLES were set for 1,000 guests last Thursday at the Island Ballroom of the Shangri-La Hotel, located in Singapore's elite Orchard Road. Friends and acquaintances from Indonesia were especially flown in by a Singapore Airlines airplane. Among the guests at this special reunion were several business tycoons and former officials of Suharto's New Order government.

The guest of honor was no longer as healthy as he used to be, having to be assist