Word: lumpur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rubber estate near Sungei Siput, 100miles northeast of Kuala Lumpur, about 50 frogs began furiously hopping around and biting one another. Soon 3,000 frogs joined the bloody fray. For two days the battle raged. When it was over, the swampy battlefield was littered with the torn bodies of 700 frogs...
...rural Malays were guaranteed political dominance as compensation for Chinese economic primacy. This balance was shattered when the Chinese made significant inroads into the Malays' political strength in the 1969 parliamentary elections. Soon afterward, Malay mobs burned vehicles, houses and shops in predominantly Chinese areas of tense Kuala Lumpur; unofficial estimates put the death toll at more than...
...duly fetched, and each of the young Malaysians was required to pay 330 to have his long locks trimmed. When the shorn youths returned home, their countrymen were outraged-and reacted accordingly. The Malaysian government delivered a stern protest note to Singapore's ranking diplomatic representative in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian students demonstrated outside the Singapore embassy and the Malaysian press deplored the incident...
...week's end, with the Vice President showing signs of fatigue and Judy Agnew valiantly fighting intestinal sickness, Air Force Two winged to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In a land where the U.S. offers neither military nor economic aid, the Vice President had time for half a round at the Royal Selangor...