Word: kuan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Federation of Malaysia, consisting of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, was formed last September, the new nation gave a slight numerical edge to the Malays-42% of the 10 million population as opposed to 38% Chinese. The leader of Singapore's Chinese community, Lee Kuan Yew, was a firm backer of the multiracial federation. As Prime Minister (in effect, mayor) of Singapore, "Harry" Lee, though nominally a socialist, had kept Singapore wide open to free enterprise, and fought the Communists hard. At the same time, he did much to help the city's Malay...
Fearful that Indonesia might extract further delays out of Malaya's easygoing Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, the architect of the federation, Singapore's brilliant, shifty Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who regards Sukarno as "an international blackmailer," swung into action. Flying to Sarawak and North Borneo, "Harry" Lee picked up the chief ministers of both territories and brought them back to Kuala Lumpur to stiffen up the Tunku. Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys was also on hand, working hard to get agreement. Threatening to declare Singapore an independent state, Lee pressured Abdul Rahman into holding...
Macy's v. Gimbels. Brunei's sudden defection came after weeks of cliffhanging negotiations between Malaya's shrewd Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, father of the federation scheme, and Singapore's brilliant, mercurial Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Though the Tunku had demanded that Singapore kick in 55% of its revenues to the federal treasury, Lee managed to whittle the figure down to 40%. But overplaying his hand, he then held out for 39% . So infuriated was the Tunku at this Macy's v. Gimbels tactic that he delivered an ultimatum to Singapore...
...spreading like an infection among the underfed, underemployed masses in Singapore's squalid, teeming tenement quarters. By strikes, riots and boycotts, the Peking-oriented Communist-front Barisan Socialist Party tried to topple the tottering government glued together by Singapore's shifty, brilliant, Cambridge-educated Prime Minister Lee Kuan...
...echoing Singapore badminton hall, weary workers counted and recounted the ballots far into the night. Outside. 200 police stood guard against possible violence organized by the powerful left-wing parties. But the leftists failed to marshal either rioters or voters, and moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew scored an unexpected landslide for his campaign to bring Singapore into the big new federation of Britain's Malaysian territories (TIME, July 27). Glowed the Cambridge-educated Prime Minister: "It is the seal of public and popular approval for merger and Malaysia. We are off to a good start...