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...charmed the Nationalists, already flattered by his visit, with a show of boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor. He met with top Nationalist officials, conferred three times with...
...brooded for months about the growing tensions that he feared might bring a renewed bout of the bloody race riots that flared in Singapore a year ago. The Tunku's Malay community was also concerned about the growing threat posed by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who last year suddenly expanded the political activities of his vigorous People's Action Party from Singapore to the mainland. P.A.P. campaigned for nine seats on the mainland, and, though it captured only one, the lone victory was warning enough that the P.A.P. might begin to lure large numbers...
...appeared. Kosygin stepped quickly down the ramp, shook Chou's hand, then hugged him; Chou managed a tight smile. Mumbled Kosygin: "It is always a great pleasure." The glow lasted five minutes. Then Chou departed, leaving the Russian Premier to drive unescorted and unheralded to the Ying Ping Kuan guesthouse, where copies of a recent Peking People's Daily carried three acid poems of greeting to Kosygin. A sample...
...items as a $150,000 necklace and a Doughty & Boehm quail-shaped teapot worth $50,000 escaped the fire undamaged, but about two-thirds of the store's $12 million stock of merchandise was either destroyed or made unsalable by N.M. standards. A $10,000 wooden figurine of Kuan Yin, a Chinese goddess of mercy, was decapitated and a $35,000 sable coat so saturated with smoke that Marcus deemed it uncleanable. "It would be like trying to take the smoke smell out of smoked herring," he said. Much of the less-damaged merchandise will be sold to other...
...When the Federation of Malaysia, consisting of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, was formed last September, the new nation gave a slight numerical edge to the Malays-42% of the 10 million population as opposed to 38% Chinese. The leader of Singapore's Chinese community, Lee Kuan Yew, was a firm backer of the multiracial federation. As Prime Minister (in effect, mayor) of Singapore, "Harry" Lee, though nominally a socialist, had kept Singapore wide open to free enterprise, and fought the Communists hard. At the same time, he did much to help the city's Malay...