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...prevent leakage of the air cushion and to ward off obstacles, this vehicle even cleared a 4½-ft. fence to show off its agility. In what may be the first military use of an air-cushion vehicle, the British plan to send a pair of armed Hovercraft to Borneo late this month for use against Indonesian terrorists...
...Abdul Rahman* told the Council, had been captured from the 40-odd, Indonesia-based paratroopers dropped into mainland Malaya two weeks ago. Last month more than 100 raiders hit Malaya by sea, opening a second front in Sukarno's undeclared war, which had been principally confined to northern Borneo. Declared Rahman to the assembled delegates: "I ask that you condemn such international brigandage...
Blithe Spirit. In reply, Indonesia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sudjarwo Tjondronegoro cockily admitted that "our volunteers, together with the militant youth of Sarawak and Sabah [North Borneo], some of whom have been trained in our territory, have entered so-called 'Malaysian' territory. They have been fighting there for some time. This is no secret." He couldn't understand why Malaysia was getting so excited. "The fighting now in Malaya is on a very small scale compared with the magnitude of the fighting in Sarawak and Sabah. Why, then, all the fuss? Is it because the present...
...debarked at three points along the swampy coast only 35 miles north of Singapore. The raid was an Indonesian attempt to open a second front on the Malayan mainland itself in Sukarno's undeclared war, which so far has been chiefly confined to the Indonesian-Malaysian border in Borneo...
...Control. When the Federation of Malaysia, consisting of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, was formed last September, the new nation gave a slight numerical edge to the Malays-42% of the 10 million population as opposed to 38% Chinese. The leader of Singapore's Chinese community, Lee Kuan Yew, was a firm backer of the multiracial federation. As Prime Minister (in effect, mayor) of Singapore, "Harry" Lee, though nominally a socialist, had kept Singapore wide open to free enterprise, and fought the Communists hard. At the same time, he did much to help the city...