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...five festive days last week, nearly a million Malaysians streamed through their flag-draped capital of Kuala Lumpur to celebrate ten years of merdeka - freedom. In a mile-long procession and countless do-it-yourself fiestas, brightly costumed citizens, many of them from remote kampongs, beat on Malay drums, Chinese cymbals and Kadazan tom-toms. Sarawak Dyaks played flutes with their noses and blue-clad Chinese acrobats and Bajau horsemen from Sabah performed, while Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, 64, watched from a blue Bentley convertible flanked by three ceremonial elephants...
...Sukarno's konfrontasi, the undeclared war that poisoned Indonesia's relations with her neighbors for four years and cost Malaysia and her British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
...Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, 140 miles north of Kuala Lumpur at an elevation of 5,000 ft., is one of Southeast Asia's most fetching health resorts. Its climate is mild by day and cool by night, and its lush vegetation includes thick jungles, clouds of brilliant flowers and mile after mile of tea plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million...
...like that might figure it was a lemon, but State Department Chief of Protocol James Symington, 39, insists: "It's what I've always wanted." At his home in Washington's Wesley Heights, Symington took delivery on a snappy used "pedicab" he bought for $30 in Kuala Lumpur last October. "At first," he said, "I couldn't get the driver to believe I wanted to buy the thing from him-he thought I just wanted a ride." Thing is, just about everyone in Wesley Heights wants a ride now. "I've been a lot more...
After landing in Kuala Lumpur from Bangkok, the President was visibly elated when King Ismail Nasiruddin told him that Malaysia, though it offers no direct support in the Viet Nam war, "fully understands and welcomes the difficult but vital role your great coun try is playing." At a state dinner in Malaysia's Parliament House, Johnson responded by warning Red China's lead ers that "any nuclear capability they can develop can - and will - be deterred." He added: "Nations which do not seek nuclear weapons can be sure that they will have our strong support...