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Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...
...terrorists had hardly melted back into the jungle before the Royal Regiment of Artillery's 25-pounders began laying down heavy barrages on suspected Communist jungle hideouts. In Kuala Lumpur, headquarters of the British and Malayan forces, General Sir Geoffrey Bourne announced tersely that all-out war against the terrorists would be resumed immediately, canceled the order to "shout before you shoot." The reason Communists could face up to the resumption of a shooting war with some confidence lay not so much in the Federation of Malaya as in the British island colony of Singapore at the southern...
Privileged Horses. The herons and mosquitoes breed side by side. Also, the herons migrate through much of southeast Asia, which explains why Japanese B is rife in such places as Dienbienphu and Kuala Lumpur. In the Pusan perimeter, the bugs got out of hand when Army medics had to lay down their DDT guns and pick up Mis. Since this realization, U.S. forces have had relatively little trouble (only 30 cases, two deaths on Okinawa this year). They spray mosquito lairs, sleep under nets; in a tough combat situation they would slaughter all the nesting birds they could find...
Meaning of Meaning. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, delivering a long speech to 6,000 Malayans on "The Meaning of Patience in Islam," the mufti of Selangor was shouted down after 45 minutes...
...instant the stern face softened, the tight lips relaxed. Then the stiff-backed British general, regaining his composure, turned on his polished heel and marched towards his airliner at Kuala Lumpur in western Malaya. General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, the man who saved Malaya from the Communists, was on his way home, a job well done...