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...Prophet's 1,394th year to heaven, and the Malay Silat of Singapore were bursting with birthday fervor. The Silat are Moslem warriors who wear black sarongs and practice a karate-like form of combat. About 100 of them brought up the rear of a procession as it made its way last week from Singapore's rambling old cricket field through the center of town, when a Chinese traffic cop ordered them to tighten their ranks so as not to obstruct traffic. A few of the Silat knocked him flat, and in an instant the rest...
...Control. When the Federation of Malaysia, consisting of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, was formed last September, the new nation gave a slight numerical edge to the Malays-42% of the 10 million population as opposed to 38% Chinese. The leader of Singapore's Chinese community, Lee Kuan Yew, was a firm backer of the multiracial federation. As Prime Minister (in effect, mayor) of Singapore, "Harry" Lee, though nominally a socialist, had kept Singapore wide open to free enterprise, and fought the Communists hard. At the same time, he did much to help the city...
...quite a post-election statement, but justified in the sense that the big issue at the polls had indeed been Sukarno and his vicious guerrilla and propaganda offensives against the new Federation of Malaysia. In a lively five-week campaign, heated slogans in Malay, English, Tamil and four dialects of Chinese filled the air as candidates ran for most of Malaysia's national Parliament and state assembly seats. Charges flew that politicians were luring women voters with love potions. More serious were charges that some of the parties were playing into the hands of the Indonesians by opposing...
Major South East and South Asia Languages not taught at Harvard (in millions): Assamese/India (7), Bengali/India and Pakistan (86), Burmese (16), Cebuano/Phillippines (7), Gujarati/India (22), Hindi/India (165), Javanese/Indonesia (42), Kannada/India (20), Malay (72), Malayalam/India (17), Marathi/India (34), Nepali/Nepal, India (9), Oriya/India (9), Punjabi/India, Pakistan (26), Pushtu/Afghanistan (12), Rajasthani/India (17), Siamese (21), Sinhalese/Ceylon (8), Sudanese/Indonesia (13), Tagalog/Philippines (12), Tamil/India, Ceylon (37), Telegu/India (41), Urdu/Pakistan, India (55), and Vietnamese (26), Total...
Their task was complicated by the fact that among New Guinea's 2,000,000 people, nearly 750 different languages are spoken. The lingua franca is pidgin - an amalgam of missionary English, Malay, and local dialects...