Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lee 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...
...Lee's Singapore is the fifth largest port city in the world. Though plagued by severe unemployment and racial problems, it still has the highest standard of living in Southeast Asia. The tiny country with a predominantly Chinese population is walled in by four Muslim nations. And co Lee must try to maintain Singapore's delicate relations with Malaysia, increase Singapore's trade with both Eastern and Western powers, and prevent a new wave of Communist uprisings in neighboring Southeast Asian nations...
...concern for the fate of Southeast Asia, fortified by his spectacular economic successes and his ambitious style, make Lee a potential international strongman. The prime minister has traveled around the world talking about the Vietnam war and other Southeast Asian affairs. "I've got a very deep interest," he explains, "in my own survival...
...Lee originally planned only to visit the Center for International Affairs while at Harvard. In talks with President Johnson on Wednesday, however, Lee expressed a desire to meet with American students...
...request was channeled to Alwin M. Pappenheimer '29, Master of Dunster House, who arranged for Lee to speak at the Forum. Amid laughter and applause, Lee explained, "I've come here to sample opinion" and "to find out what other contingency plans I must make...