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...household stocked with the requisite number of permissible wives; they have borne him 20-odd children. Wife No. 1, the "official consort," is the daughter of a neighboring sultan, but Wife No. 4 found her way to the Sultan's side via the dance halls of Kuala Lumpur. As the mother of the Sultan's latest-born son, she has been generally considered the royal favorite...
Last week Pahang was astonished to learn that its sportive Sultan had secretly annexed still another wife. The newcomer was lissom, 20-year-old Hathifah Binte Abdul Rashid Alis, also a graduate of the Kuala Lumpur dance halls, who in 1955 was elected "joget queen" as Malaya's finest practitioner of the traditional local dance...
From Manila, Bell flew to Singapore later in the week, went up the road to Kuala Lumpur, past villages circled with barbed wire, past check points and roadblocks set up against Commu nist terrorists. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur just as a terrorist hideout was uncovered only a two-iron shot from the ninth hole of the exclusive Selangor Golf Club (see "Ruining the Rough" in FOREIGN NEWS...
Just beyond the fairways of the Selangor Golf Club in terrorist-troubled Kuala Lumpur lie some of the best-protected residences in Malaya, including the mansion of the Chief Minister of Selangor state and the town palaces of several reigning Sultans...
...beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...