Word: malay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been trying to come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country's northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar but smaller wave of trouble far to the south, along the thin isthmus of Thailand that forms part of the Malay Peninsula. There, a pattern of forced "tax" collections, Red propaganda leaflets and occasional clashes with police patrols has suggested the presence of a regular second front of Communist guerrillas...
...from marrying Negro slaves, also passed one of the nation's last such laws in 1935. Aimed at preventing Filipino mess boys at the Naval Academy in Annapolis from taking all-too-willing local brides, it bars marriage of either whites or Negroes with "a member of the Malay race." So, when Jo Ann Kovacs, 25, a white Baltimore nurse, and Meki Toalepai, 26, a handsome singer-dancer-musician from Western Samoa, applied for a marriage license in Baltimore this month, they were refused. Maryland, the unhappy couple quickly discovered, would allow Jo Ann to marry anyone whose skin...
...time Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew arrived on the scene half an hour later, police billies had subdued the rioters. Lee soothed them with an apology for the "misunderstanding" and a pep talk in faultless Malay on his favorite theme, the satisfaction of Singapore's multiracial way of life. When Lee put down his bullhorn, the recruits cheered him heartily. Still, it was a close call. Communal rioting in July and September 1964 took more than 100 lives and caused severe property damage. Though Lee told the recruits that they could certainly remain in the Army, it seemed equally...
...flaw that doomed the scheme from the start. Last week Singapore, fifth largest port in the world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising -feared domination by the Chinese-aggressive, technically able and urban -who ran just about everything except the bureaucracy. It was just a matter of time before the ugly jealousies brought trouble to a climax. The federation was given the coup de grace by the very...
...latest joke craze is inventing names for imaginary discothèques. Thus, they dance the real Watusi at the Belgian Congo-Go, do the monkey at the Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long...