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...hold of the territory. Acting for the Sultan's heirs, who live in the Philippines, the Manila government claims that the original agreement merely leased Sabah to the British instead of ceding it. Last month, talks in Bangkok broke down, and Manila threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, a rupture that could have scuttled ASEAN as a promising vessel for Southeast Asian cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: A Victory for Regionalism | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions. This month, some 30,000 will wing off from the chill monsoon rains of the DMZ or the muddy Del ta for a five-day fling to a list of cities that now includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Manila, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and, most recently, Sydney.-It is probably something only the world's richest country could afford. To provide it, the Government pays Pan Am $23,500,000 a year for its service, which now runs 45 jet flights every month to Honolulu alone, 65 monthly DC-6 flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Five-Day Bonanza | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...fitted within 48 hours. Hong Kong is also the most popular R & R center for the Seventh Fleet; the arrival and departure of U.S. ships coming off patrol duty off Viet Nam is recorded on an updated blackboard at many a bar-dancehall in its famed Wanchai district. Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore get fewer applicants-mostly those who want to avoid the sight of fellow Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Five-Day Bonanza | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...chooses the lesser; that's what we have to do in Viet Nam. But let's not forget, as we make our choice, that the lives of the most successful democracies in Southeast Asia hang on our decision. PAUL PEACH Professor Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Technical Aid. Humphrey had two other important stops to make before he got back to Gripesville. The first was Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, where Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said that Malaysia is considering a revival of its rural-assistance program to South Viet Nam, which lapsed with the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Malaysia already trains South Vietnamese in police work and American troops in jungle techniques. Warned by the Tunku that Communist China will certainly capture all of Southeast Asia if the war is lost, Humphrey repeated in essence what he had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Northwest's Passage | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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