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...exceeding Gemini 10's record height of 476 miles. As his ship approached maximum altitude, Conrad could not contain his excitement. "It's fantastic," he radioed to controllers at Carnarvon, Australia. "You wouldn't believe it. I've got India in the left window, Borneo under our nose, and you're right at the right window. The world is round...
...enough for celebration, but its side effects were almost miraculous. Suddenly last week an uproar of peace noises echoed all over the Far East. In addition to its agreement with Malaysia, Indonesia unexpectedly announced recognition of Singapore. In Manila, the Philippines suddenly dropped its claims to Sabah in North Borneo, established diplomatic relations with Malaysia. In Tokyo, Japan agreed to an emergency $30 million loan to Indonesia, offered to bring all her international creditors together in a "Tokyo Club" to ease the pressures on Indonesia's economy. In Bangkok, Foreign Minister Thanat even hinted that Thailand was anxious...
Sabah lies some 700 miles southeast of Saigon, on the other side of the South China sea. An island state in Malaysia, it occupies 29,000 square miles of northern Borneo...
...wood products, a Japanese-owned pulp mill in Sitka, Alaska, uses the output of 1,500,000 nearby acres of leased forest, ships home 165,000 tons of pulp a year, presently provides 85% of Japanese imports. Additional sources are being developed in Canada and Borneo...
...tiny island of Singapore, strategically situated midway between India and China, has long been a commercial center of Southeast Asia. It processes and exports rubber, tin, pepper and copra from Malaya and Borneo, imports machinery from Australia, Britain and the U.S. Its trade has made it a leading banking, warehousing and insurance city in Asia. When Singapore joined with neighboring Malaya, nearby Sarawak and North Borneo in 1963 to form the rich Federation of Malaysia its 1.8 million people prepared expectantly for a boom in business...