Word: borneo
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...since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, whose predominantly non-Chinese populations would offset Singapore's Chinese, many of whom are openly proCommunist. But Lee, who has lost two by-elections in recent months, fortnight ago rushed to Kuala Lumpur to argue that his situation was deteriorating, and he cannot afford to wait until the Borneo...
...cases, with six deaths, in the colony's islands and mainland territory. Within ten days, the doctors vaccinated 1,750,000 (out of a population of 3,000,000). Cholera vaccine was arriving daily by jet from the U.S., Britain, India (the birthplace and permanent home of cholera), Borneo and Australia. Among the U.S. shipments was a Government gift of 450,000 shots...
...bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...
...much business as possible with the Communists from its Hong Kong headquarters, swapping Western chemicals and machinery for Chinese commodities. But the company also embarked on a major program of expansion into other areas. It bought up an importing and engineering company with outlets in Singapore, Malaya, Borneo and Sarawak. It stepped up tea marketing in the U.S. through Jardine. Balfour Inc.. branched into manufacturing with a $1,000,000 textile plant in Hong Kong...
...American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: "This has been much more successful than my earlier trips." But the old place was not much fun to come home to. Rebel and bandit fighting continued in Java, Sumatra, the Celebes and Borneo. The monetary reform so ambitiously decreed last year was a total failure. With more currency in circulation than ever, the rupiah was down to 250 to the dollar on the free market (official rate 45 to one), and the presses still clacked out new money to support...