July 26, 2001, 6:00pm EDT INDONESIA CHOOSES NEW VICE PRESIDENT After days of political maneuvering, Indonesia's legislature selected Muslim leader Hamza Haz to serve as the new vice president.

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	Wahid left Indonesia this morning, bound for Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo treatment for fluctuating blood pressure. The deposed leader had at first refused to leave the presidential palace, but said yesterday he would fly to the U.S. based on his doctors' medical advice. The 61-year-old Wahid is nearly blind and has suffered two strokes in recent years. As he left, well-wishers gathered and sang, but troops, who ignored a last-minute emergency decree during the final hours of his administration, refused to salute him. "I will come back and continue fighting for democracy," Wahid told the gathered crowd. Earlier in the day, Wahid had warned the country could once again fall under military control, as it did during the 1966 - 1998 rule of former dictator Suharto. "Indonesia will be looted," he told reporters. "There will be no law and human rights will be [undermined]." President Megawati has made no public comment since her swearing-in Monday. She is due to make other cabinet appointments within days.