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...line is that Agnew is carrying a message of good will as well as an "explanation of the Nixon foreign policy." That should leave ample time for golf: enroute to South Korea, Agnew toured the course in Guam. He plans a "logistics" stay in Singapore, whose Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is an ardent golfer...
SINGAPORE calmly allows the Chinese to operate a major bank on its soil, the North Koreans to run endless ads in its newspapers extolling the virtues of Kim Il Sung, and Soviet ships to call at its superb port. The Soviet fleet, says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, could be a "useful balancing force" to growing Chinese and Japanese power...
...officials maintain that the North Vietnamese are "at the edge of an abyss." To many of Asia's non-Communist capitals, however, it looks as if they are at the edge only because they just pushed somebody else over. Lam Son, concluded Singapore's tough Premier Lee Kuan Yew, "was asking more than the South Vietnamese army was ready to give or able to give." Berita Yudha, Indonesia's army-controlled newspaper, decided that the whole exercise merely "gave an opportunity for North Viet Nam to demonstrate its victory in battle...
...Kuan Yew, 47, Prime Minister of Singapore. One of Asia's most articulate statesmen, Lee is usually dismissed-and rules himself out-on the grounds that he is too much a man of action for the U.N.'s brand of turtle-race diplomacy. In addition, Lee may be too anti-Communist for the job. Nevertheless, his name is often mentioned...
Cleanliness works in Singapore where it fails elsewhere because the government, and especially tough Socialist Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, cracks down on polluters with a vengeance. Strict laws are well understood in a compact city-state where the citizenry has a high literacy rate. But it is the sting of law-hitting Singaporeans in the pocketbook-that has been the most effective antipollution measure...