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...just across the bridge on Asia's mainland, have quietly discussed a merger of the two territories in a "Malaysian" federation. Unwitting spurs to the scheme are Singapore's Red-leaning, left-wing extremists (mostly Chinese), whose rising influence threatens the regime of moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and could stall Singapore's slow but steady move from British colonial status toward full independence. Fearful of chaos ahead, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman now shares Lee's view that Singapore's Communists can be stopped only if the two territories join forces...
...year 1297, a Chinese official named Chou Ta-kuan was sent by his emperor on a reporting mission to the kingdom of Khmer, in the land that is now Cambodia. The Cambodians, he quickly decided, "are not what we would call civilized people." The women were depraved and old before their time; the marketplaces were filled with homosexuals; and bathing in the nude was something of a national obsession-an obsession, Chou Ta-kuan was sure, that accounted for the high rate of dysentery and leprosy. Chou Ta-kuan could find almost nothing good to say about the Cambodians...
Chief worry is not the eleven states of the federation itself, but the neighboring autonomous state of Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew struggles to keep tenuous control over a noisy leftist opposition. To reinforce his moderates and keep Singapore out of the hands of the leftists, Lee has long sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution...
...Changes are coming!" cried Singapore's fiery Lee Kuan Yew, 37, on the wild night last year when 80,000 supporters of his left-wing People's Action Party celebrated its sweep of the island's first general elections. Seventeen months have passed since Lee and his motley crowd of Chinese, Indian and Malay anti-colonialists took over the internal government of the famed imperial base. The most startling change last week seemed to be the change that has come over Singapore's revolutionary rulers...
Their main business is extortion. Prying protection money from taxi drivers, prostitutes, shopkeepers, housewives and small schoolchildren alike, they rake in as much as $350,000 a month. Cambridge-educated Lee Kuan Yew, becoming independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared...