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...committee invited Ali in May and he accepted, but when his manager reminded the heavyweight champion that they would have to be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by today to begin training for his next defense of his title, Ali had to back committee...
...time he reached Jakarta on the last stop of his five-nation, eleven-day good-will mission to Southeast Asia, Tanaka had already encountered an embarrassing amount of hostility. His effigy had been burned in Bangkok (TIME, Jan. 21), and on the day of his departure from placid Kuala Lumpur, a handful of activists at the University of Malaysia had staged an auto-da-fe of a puppet labeled Tanaka. But the stop last week at Indonesia was the worst...
Feelers. The Foreign Ministers of the five members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)* will meet in a special session in Kuala Lumpur next week. Among other matters on their agenda is whether and how the organization should expand to include Burma, Cambodia, Laos and the two Viet Nams. South Korean diplomats hint that they will not only accelerate their plodding discussions with Pyongyang on reunification but also put out diplomatic feelers to Moscow and Peking...
...rest of Indochina as well. Paris is questionable as a site because Saigon feels that France is partial to the North Vietnamese; Geneva is out, since Hanoi has bitter memories of the city that stem from the 1954 and 1962 conferences. Among the other possibilities: Copenhagen, Vienna, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or a Swiss city other than Geneva. The North Vietnamese are also eager to discuss the U.S. plan to bankroll a $7.5 billion Viet Nam reconstruction program; it is possible that the program will involve a Kissinger visit to Hanoi...
...Chinese government has frequently expressed its concern over Thai involvement in Cambodia. On January 14, the People's Daily of Peking said that participation by "certain Southeast Asian countries" in the U.S.-backed aid consortium for Cambodia contradicted their support for Southeast Asian neutralization as expressed at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November...