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...become far more circumspect since then, it has also become more global. The fate of GM (1991 revenues: $123 billion) has an impact on millions of people around the world. With more than 715,000 employees in 35 countries, GM meets $22.5 billion in payrolls from Prague to Kuala Lumpur and buys supplies from 28,000 companies. GM's U.S. auto business accounts for roughly 1.5% of the American economy, down from about 5% in the 1950s...
...still the memories kept coming, as various and many-hued as the images in the cameras lined up along the track, each trained on a different local hero. Some of them would have to be edited, some would be shown only in Kuala Lumpur. One sunny Sunday morning, the badminton hall was filled with Malaysian smiles. The country's doubles team -- the brothers Razif and Jalani Sidek -- had just advanced to the semifinals, assuring Malaysia of its first Olympic medal ever. "What more could you ask for in life?" coach Punch Gunalan asked the air around him. One hour later...
...separate conference in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month, Malaysia's feisty Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reiterated the developing world's hard line on the issue. If the industrial nations think the rain forests are so important for biodiversity and CO2 storage, says Mahathir, why don't the rich, CO2-creating countries pay for the service of preserving those forests, instead of hectoring the poor countries not to utilize one of their few natural resources? Mahathir, of course, is not exactly a disinterested party; his country has been charged with rampant overlogging in peninsular Malaysia and Borneo...
Jeffrey G. Kitingan, a 1981 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government and a 1984 graduate of the Harvard-Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is currently being held in a Malaysian jail. He is being charged with corruption and sedition by the peninsular Malaysian Kuala Lumpur (KL) government...
Ambassador Leonard S. Unger '39 says he feels that, "The government in Kuala Lumpur...took measures to prevent local Christian officials from exercising authority...and did everything [it could] to discredit them. If there was to be a Christian government, they wanted to keep it under their thumbs...