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Despite his role as lively guide, Bloodworth, by a kind of Oriental indirection, gets his major points across. He makes it unmistakably clear that the one goal all Southeast Asian countries share is independence-merdeka in Malay, doc lap in Vietnamese. Big Brother is not wanted, whether he is American, Russian or Chinese...
Racial Harmony. Razak, 48, will need all the realism and cold-eyed pragmatism for which he is noted if he is to restore racial harmony. The Tunku managed to keep peace by skillfully applying a relatively simple formula. The predominantly rural Malays were guaranteed political dominance as compensation for Chinese economic primacy. This balance was shattered when the Chinese made significant inroads into the Malays' political strength in the 1969 parliamentary elections. Soon afterward, Malay mobs burned vehicles, houses and shops in predominantly Chinese areas of tense Kuala Lumpur; unofficial estimates put the death toll at more than...
...bitterness between the two major groups is deeprooted. Complained a Chinese businessman: "The Malays have got to learn to work too. We pay a machinist his salary one day and the next day he doesn't show up for work. Then the government won't let us sack him." A leading Malay politician had a different story: "With the Chinese, every form of business, from hawking fruits to multimillion-dollar construction work, is monopolized by them. Not even the crumbs are left to others...
...succeeded in creating the sort of independent and self-assured nation that Nixon hopes will develop throughout the Far East. In the past decade, he has turned the island nation of 2,000,000 into Asia's second most affluent country. Though Singapore's population contains the Malay-Chinese mix that has proved to be explosive in neighboring Malaysia, Lee's city-state enjoys racial peace and political stability. Apart from that, Lee possesses one of the sharpest minds in Asia and some firm ideas on the role of the U.S. there after Viet Nam. That...
...retaliation, Chinese merchants have already raised prices on many goods to Malay buyers and cut off paja (credit), by which many a Malay farmer buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians...