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...Baker disclosed that the U.S. had agreed to engage in direct diplomatic contact with representatives of the Hun Sen government. Still, many observers remain pessimistic. "An international agreement on Cambodia does not equal an internal agreement," said Shafiq Fit Abdullah of the Institute of Strategic International Affairs in Kuala Lumpur. To get that, at least six steps -- each problematic at best -- must be taken before the U.N. plan can succeed...
...preachings of the liberal West, Elegant argues, are undermined by the effectiveness of authoritarian Neo-Confucianism from Seoul to Tokyo to Taipei, from Beijing to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Japan's energy comes from a disciplined adherence to the hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew reigns as a benevolent but stern patriarch. South Korea prospers because of -- not in spite of -- Park Chung Hee, the dictator who laid the foundations for his country's phenomenal economic expansion. Though Elegant does not quite make the argument, the Confucian ethic, with its emphasis on obedience...
...Albertina that he was to be released, De Klerk found time to telephone British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to tell her he was freeing a group of aging black leaders as she had urged him to do. Thatcher took that news with her to the Commonwealth conference in Kuala Lumpur last week, where she opposed all proposals for additional sanctions. This malleability was something new for Pretoria, however. "The classic Afrikaner response is never to be seen to be giving in to foreign pressure," says a Western diplomat. "De Klerk is showing much greater sensitivity...
...because my desk diary lacked the fat glossary of practical information that people like Michael Korda take for granted. It is galling to admit that I have at my fingertips neither the international dialing code for Abu Dhabi nor an up-to-date list of bank holidays in Kuala Lumpur. Even worse, I am forced to rise from my swivel chair and wander down the hall each time I need the name of the concierge at the Hotel George V in Paris. In contrast, about the only power tool my Daily Planner offers is a page of metric equivalents. Unfortunately...
...Robert Brustein. As familiarity breeds contempt, especially in high culture, we might conclude that there is something wrong with him. Why would any real world-class auteur hang around Harvard Square? Robert Wilson seems only to spend scattered weeks here between breakfast meetings in Vladivostok and fundraisers in Kuala Lumpur. Now, there, there's an artiste...