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...Peking last year, and Thailand's Foreign Minister, Chartichai Choonhavan, who is scheduled to visit the Chinese capital later this month, has announced that Sino-Thai relations will be established by September. The Thai move has been enthusiastically supported by Singapore's toughly realistic Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, not out of love for China but from the feeling that good relations between Peking and Bangkok will enhance the stability of the entire region. The remaining member of ASEAN, Indonesia, will probably find the move of its neighbors toward China difficult to resist...
Star Turn. The President was undoubtedly heartened by the Shah's remarks, especially since two other recent state visitors-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and President Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia-had taken advantage of their opportunity to toast Ford by lecturing the U.S. on its international diplomatic responsibilities. The evening's star turn was an exuberant performance by Singer Ann-Margret that would have wowed them in Las Vegas, to say nothing of Tehran...
...rapid succession the President met with four Prime Ministers-New Zealand's Wallace Rowling, Australia's Gough Whitlam, Britain's Harold Wilson and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew-all on their way from a British Commonwealth meeting in Jamaica. To each, Ford gave the same basic message: despite widely voiced doubts in Asia and Europe (see story page 29) about America's dependability as an ally, in the wake of Communist victories in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, those "setbacks in no way weakened U.S. resolve to stand by its allies and friends in Asia...
Other publications, such as student papers, need government licenses that are frequently withdrawn. All this is not surprising. The New York Times of November 26, 1973 reported that Lee Kuan Yew had stated that he would be the judge of what is fit to print in Singapore. Any criticism of government policy is regarded as "anti-national." For example Newsweek's Singapore correspondent has been found guilty of contempt of court for implying that the Singapore court system was not independent of the Government...
...Kuan Yew himself, 19 years ago, while in opposition to the colonial Singapore legislature, who lamented, "Repression is like making love--it's always easier the second time. The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course, with constant repetition, you get more and more brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack." The year before, in 1955, Lee had asked, "If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him when you cannot charge him with any offense against any written law--if that...