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...want," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "is sufficient time to develop my own muscles." At week's end Lee flew off to Britain to seek a reprieve. His trump card: 400 million pounds sterling in his own and Malaysian reserves, which could cause great damage to the pound's value if exchanged for yen or other currencies. Whatever happens, Singapore seems destined to move even closer to Japan, whose businessmen already hold one-quarter of Singapore's industries and were conveniently in conference there last week...
...thank the man who recorded what Lyndon Johnson told Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore: "You rode the tiger. We shall" [Oct. 27]. I believe Asians respect and recognize backbone, when Americans are courageous enough to walk beyond courage, to deface false bravery, to stretch our guts and show backbone, not only our backside...
Another visiting Asian statesman, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, called for U.S. "patience, perseverance and prudence" in an effort that is designed, "in a world full of bears and dragons," to help the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their independence. If the U.S. were to withdraw too hastily from Viet Nam, he warned, internal subversion with outside support would quickly run Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore through the Communist "mincing machine." The President assured Lee that the U.S. "has the resolution and the restraint to see the struggle through." He added: "You have a phrase in your part...
...Kuan Yew, prime minister of the city-state of Singapore, is a mayor who talks as though he may one day be a world statesman...
...thinks there's some point to buying time with a shield because he believes in the great-man theory of history. And the great man is none other than Lee Kuan Yew, who thinks that because of his own competence and shrewdness Singapore has succeeded where South Vietnam has failed. "If you can find the group of men who could do it," Lee said in Dunster, "Saigon can do what Singapore did." In fact, the prime minister boasted, "If one looked at Saigon and Singapore in 1954, one would have said Singapore was the goner, not Saigon...