Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanded eventual closing of Britain's huge military base, though this, he made clear, must follow a merger with the neighboring independent Federation of Malaya, and would take perhaps "five, ten, 15 or 20 years." When the British-owned Straits Times threatened to move across Singapore's causeway to Malaya to fight P.A.P. better, Lee shouted: "Any newspaper that tries to sour up relations between Malaya and Singapore after May 30 will go in for subversion. We will put in any editor, subeditor or reporter who goes along this line, and keep...
...inhabitants of Wanchai, a sleepy town opposite Macao's inner harbor, were summarily herded last July into 50 bamboo-and-nipa barracks, put to work building roads and a causeway to connect their island to the Red mainland. The Lappa commune's day starts at 5 a.m. when shrill whistles split the dawn. From 5 until 8, the men and women do calisthenics and military drill (with wooden rifles). After a 15-minute break for breakfast, the commune marches off in formation to work on the causeway. With the exception of two other 15-minute breaks for meals...
...after dawn one day last week, residents of Macao's waterfront were wakened by an uproar coming from the commune. Silhouetted against the southern sky, Communist troops were moving on the double across the causeway. Macao people reported hearing the bark of rifles, the chatter of machine guns, followed by screams and a deadly silence...
Adding to this fear is the ever-present shadow of the heavily Chinese crown colony of Singapore, which handles 75% of Malaya's business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China...
Singapore, the stepping-off stone for trips to Indonesia, South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand. In Singapore itself, visitors can wander through fragrant, junglelike botanical gardens, try out the famed Chinese restaurants, take a side trip across the causeway to the Malayan mainland for a view of the Sultan of Johore's famed palace. Singapore's best hotel is the renowned Raffles, where rates average $20 per day for a double room v. $15 elsewhere. Best shopping bets: jade, Chinese scrolls and painted silk. Average tourist expense in Southeast Asia: $30 to $50 per day per person...