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...dawn one day last week two Australian drug runners, Brian Chambers, 29, and Kevin Barlow, 28, were hanged at Pudu Prison in Kuala Lumpur. Although they were the first non-Asians to be sent to the gallows under Malaysia's harsh narcotics laws, 36 other drug traffickers have been executed since a 1983 amendment imposed the mandatory death penalty for the possession of more than 15 grams of heroin. When Chambers and Barlow were arrested in November 1983, they were carrying nearly 180 grams...
...perspiring foreigners could be seen jogging through the crowded streets of central Moscow, rubbing elbows and sometimes knees with startled rush-hour pedestrians. The runners, most of them Western diplomats, called themselves the Hash House Harriers, after a group founded by three fleet-footed Britons in Kuala Lumpur some 50 years ago. Following a run of 2½ to five miles, participants of the Moscow ritual would engage in beer and banter at a Western embassy...
...recent military buildup. In Manila, Nakasone expressed his deep regret to President Marcos over Japan's wartime depredations in the islands. According to Nakasone, Marcos was sufficiently moved by the gesture to declare that "the era of stability has opened in Asia." In the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Nakasone firmly rejected the notion of any future military superpower status for his country, "based on reflection of what Japan did in the past." He also offered additional pledges of aid, including investment in a $2.3 billion Japanese-style bullet train, which would run from Johore Bahru to Butterworth...
...series of informal meetings with the goal of setting up a "Tinpec," a cartel similar to OPEC, that would attempt to control world supplies and prices of tin. It even wanted to supplant the London futures market with one of its own, in its capital city of Kuala Lumpur. As if to show that the cartel was already working, Malaysia announced this month that it plans to cut its production by 25%, to 45,000 tons, thus driving up the price...
...also found some support among governments in its anger at the Soviets. Delegates from 17 Muslim countries attending a conference on Islam in Kuala Lumpur condemned "the dastardly crime by the Soviet Union against the Afghan people." At the U.N., scores of nations denounced the U.S.S.R. before both the Security Council and the General Assembly (see WORLD...