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...proposed the merger to the British, who hastily put their stamp of approval on the sensible plan in exchange for a promise that the Royal Navy would enjoy continued use of its strategic Singapore base. Next question: the willingness of three other British-run territories in the area-Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo-to join the new political grouping. If they agree, federation could be a fact within two years...
...been wary, 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...
...concerns his sexual and soulful involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions" and turns to the humdrum world "the sort of smile which might have hardened on the face...
Middle-Class Sultan. This is the kind of wealth His Highness Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin, He Who Is Made Lord of Brunei, wants for his nation. Unlike some of his Islamic counterparts in the Middle East, Brunei's unpretentious ruler, who followed his profligate brother to the throne in 1950, is content to live his own life surrounded by middle-class comforts, with a single wife and eight children in a simple, tasteful villa that would go unnoticed in a better U.S. suburb. "I want," he says a little stiffly, "to direct all my energies and resources toward...
...Sultan is a stubborn as well as a sincere man, Sir Omar's British advisers help him achieve his purposes. It has not always been easy in a land that now boasts more than 50 schools but not yet a single college graduate. But even the leader of Brunei's nationalist party (an inevitable byproduct of progress) is mild in his demands. "We want internal self-government, but we will stay in the Commonwealth," he says. "And let me make it clear-we're not 'demanding' anything. We're simply requesting...