Word: kuan
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...swing through Asia next week, President Nixon will skip Singapore, domain of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The omission is dictated by an understandably tight schedule, but it will deprive the President of some pertinent impressions. Lee, a Cambridge-educated pragmatist, has to a large degree succeeded in creating the sort of independent and self-assured nation that Nixon hopes will develop throughout the Far East. In the past decade, he has turned the island nation of 2,000,000 into Asia's second most affluent country. Though Singapore's population contains the Malay-Chinese mix that...
...Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, tour members lunched with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who warned against a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam. At week's end the travelers jetted off to Indonesia for conferences with President Suharto and Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Visits to South Korea and Japan lay ahead before they crossed the international dateline on the trip home...
Sensing this attitude, many delegates expressed concern. "Britain feels that the task of leadership is onerous," said Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman. "It has lost the power and the will to use it." After "centuries of responsibility," agreed Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, "a mood of disenchantment and withdrawal is all pervasive. Britain has decided to put British interests first." To an extent, that is true. Britain simply has had it as the Commonwealth doormat, and the other members are beginning to acknowledge this change of mood and to handle the crotchety old schoolmaster with uncharacteristic care...
...Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's view of Asian economics big fish eat little fish, and little fish eat smaller ones-but none are about to get his 225-sq.-mi. island nation. The reason is that, small as it may be, Singapore is more than strong enough to keep its economic independence...
...North and South Viet Nam, the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia keenly feel each tug and convulsion of the Vietnamese war. Increasingly, many of them consider their future to be linked directly to the war. "The eventual fate of South and Southeast Asia," Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last week, "depends more and more on the decisions of America, China and Russia than on the decisions of the nations of the area." Even as Lee spoke, new troubles plagued Viet Nam's neighbors-and prompted their leaders to speak out in warning. >In Laos...