Word: goh
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SINGAPORE IS ASIA'S DREAM COUNTRY. Almost anywhere else, Goh Pang Meng, the son of a poor immigrant street vendor from China, would still be struggling to survive in a thatched hut like the one in which he grew up with 11 brothers and sisters. But at 44, Goh owns a comfortable five-room apartment and lives, like 87% of his countrymen, in a government housing project. He has three children, the minimum politically correct number preferred for the well- educated by a eugenics-inspired government: he received a $12,500 tax credit for the third birth, and his wife...
Until he retired last November, Lee Kuan Yew was the only Prime Minister that Singapore had ever had since gaining independence in 1965. In the months since Lee stepped down, Goh Chok Tong, his handpicked successor, has been trying to emerge from Lee's shadow. In an attempt to establish his own mandate, last month he called a snap election two years before he was required...
...election, which the Prime Minister saw as a referendum on his relatively open style, brought him mixed tidings. His People's Action Party received 61% of the popular vote, 2.2% lower than the total accumulated by Lee in 1988. The vote was less a repudiation of Goh than a plea for a viable opposition to the country's ruling party...
...While Goh promised to make some modification in his open style, he vowed no drastic changes. But he might reform his party and bring it back closer to the grass roots. Had Goh been less liberal, less open, some analysts contended last week, he might have done better at the polls...
...Everything feels pretty vague by now," Goh says. "I'm waiting till this whole process is over...