Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American sacrifice in Vietnam will be worthwhile only if the United States holds out for "at least a partial victory," Lee Kwan Yew, Prime Minster of Singapore, told a crowd of about 125 last night...
...speech given in Lowell Lecture Hall, will be Lee's only major public address during his present two-month sabbatical at Harvard. He analyzed the problems South Asia has encountered as it has emerged from colonialism...
Peace among South Asian ethnic groups was shattered when the colonial rulers handed power to corrupt and elitist native bureaucracies, Lee said. "Free enterprise was stifled because of ideology, or because the entrepreneurs belonged to minority groups," he added, and many of the area's best minds migrated to the West...
...deacon of Miami's First Presbyterian Church, Lee stoutly insists that there is no better rehabilitation than a stiff dose of churchgoing. To enforce his sentence, he requires each offender to write a weekly letter describing what he learned from the Sunday sermon. The effect of the preaching is sometimes questionable. One 15-year-old girl wrote what Chronicles 1:29 meant to her: "We are time watchers and punch clocks." Another boy complained: "This lesson I didn't understand at all. I did not know what he was talking about...
Although other judges are skeptical of his sentences, Lee points out that since he began the program his court has not had any repeat violators. After seven Sundays, one 17-year-old wrote that "It's kinda fun. It might help a lot of kids." Others have joined congregations, while one boy has been making a study of comparative religions by attending a different church each Sunday...