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...United States' domain in Southeast Asia is whittled away by forces of national liberation, President Ford has summoned U.S. allies to Washington for consultations. Today Lee Kuan Yew, prime minister of Singapore, visits Harvard after meeting with Ford last week...
...architects of Singapore's development in the last decade are a technocratic elite, directed by the PAP leadership. Lee Kuan Yew has led his trusted team of talented and brilliant senior cabinet members in ruthlessly creating a totalitarian city-state which is oft-cited in the West as a showcase of successful capitalist development and a paradise for foreign investors. Accompanying this experience is a meritocratic-elitist ideology which is summed up in Lee's claim that Singapore will perish if a jumbo-jet containing 300 of Singapore's top leaders were to crash...
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was probably correct when he predicted recently that G.I.s would never again fight a guerrilla war in Asia. Nonetheless, the U.S. Navy and Air Force, plus technology and economic-aid programs, will continue to provide plenty of muscle for an active American role in Asia (see map). The shape of the policy, however, will change. Some State Department experts argue that in the future the U.S. should place greater stress on bilateral relations; thus they foresee the eventual fading away of the ineffectual Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
...events elsewhere. Park urged his nation to be more self-reliant. Said he: "Where adequate and independent means of self-defense are lacking, all agreements for collective security guarantee could prove only meaningless." But in Malaysia, government officials seemed unworried about future security, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew insisted calmly: "I don't believe in the domino theory." Philippine leaders felt confident that the U.S. would intervene with naval forces in the unlikely event that Communists ever invaded across the South China...
...that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly, showing no signs of either suspicion or alarm. Said Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua: "The current international situation is characterized by great disorder under heaven. Mankind always moves forward amidst turmoil...