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- <text id=89TT0862>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: Pepsi Generation, Asia Branch
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 86
- Pepsi Generation, Asia Branch
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
- </p>
- <p> The ceremony included such antique touches as a procession
- complete with dwarfs and albinos, courtiers who carried statues
- of sacred animals and a 150-year-old carriage topped with
- gilded dragons. Thus, in the first coronation since 1940, Sultan
- Hamengku Buwono X, 40, this month became King of Yogyakarta,
- center of Java's Hindu-Islamic culture and site of the 8th
- century Buddhist Borobudur temple. Though Indonesia was once a
- string of island sultanates, Hamengku Buwono is the only ruling
- sultan left. His coronation was also the first public anointing
- of a sultan's wife -- or permaisuri -- in a century. But one
- very modern idea crept in: corporate sponsorship. The official
- coronation soft drink was Pepsi.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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