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Reading the papers on April 23 must have sent a chill through Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin. His boss and friend of 20 years, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, had given a speech in which he said that "abundantly rich" members of the ruling United Malays National Organization should be barred from holding important posts in the party. Daim, who has been in the party's top echelon for 20 years, just happens to be one of the country's wealthiest individuals. Coming at a time when relations between the two men were already strained, it must have made...
...most of the discussions taking place in Kuala Lumpur's smoke-filled rooms center on the Daim-Mahathir split. Daim is currently traveling in the U.S., following the Prime Minister's announcement in mid-April that his longtime confidant was taking an unusual three-month break from his job. When asked whether the decision to take leave was a precursor to Daim's resignation, Mahathir declined to elaborate, saying: "If you ask me and I answer, he might get angry...
...vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...
...Pere W. D. Carter '31 L'oncle E.S. Fetcher, Jr. '31 Diana Miss Bentrice Clough Genvieve Mis Helen Streeter La Soeur de Charite Miss Isablla Grandin Gringoire Louis XI Y. H. Buhler '20 Plerre Gringoire W. B. Cowen, Jr. '29 Simon-Fournier W. D. Carter '31 Olivier-let-Daim F. G. Shaw, Jr. '31 Loyse Miss Laura Robbins Nicole Audry Miss Helen Streeter
...Grandin L'Intruse L'Ariul W. B. Cowen Jr. '29 Le Pere W. D. Carter '31 L'Oncle E. S. Fetcher '31 La Jeune Fille Amee Beatrice Clough La Jeune Fille Cadette Helen Streeter Gringoire Louis XI Y. H. Buhler '20 Gringoire W. B. Cowen Jr. '29 Olivier-le-daim F. G. Shaw '31 Simon Fournier W. D. Carter '31 Loyse Laura Robbins Nicole Andrey Helen Streeter