Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range of work seems limited only by the Peace Corps' collective imagination. Volunteers are in demand for more than 300 job categories, from agronomy, bacteriology and carpentry to X-ray technology and zoology. A team of corpsmen installed the University of Malaya's first electronic computer; one is a game warden in Ethiopia; Gerald Brown, a volunteer from Douglas, Ariz., conducts Bolivia's National Symphony orchestra, and Lynn Meena's televised English lessons made her one of Iran's most popular performers. The majority teach, and the Corps has even sent blind volunteers abroad...
Disengagement. No one reminded Romney that Malaya was an East-West battleground before most Americans knew where Viet Nam was, that Laos nearly slipped under Communist control six years ago, that the U.S. presence in Asia encouraged Indonesia's excision of Communist influence...
...only where the guerrillas have seized both the mantle of social revolutionary or reformer and that of nationalist hero who drove out the foreigner--as in Yugoslavia, China, Algeria and Vietnam. Where guerrillas have been unable to capture the banner of nationalism--either because of ethnic problems, as in Malaya, or because of the absence of a foreign invader, as in Burma and the Philippines--they have failed...
...grubby streets of Pasay City, a suburb of Manila, a most unusual group of men gathered last week. They were members of an obscure political sect called Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Movement), and they were armed with long bolo knives and dressed in peculiar blue uniforms with red and yellow capes. At the command of their leader, an old (eightyish) fanatic named Valentin de los Santos, they had come up from their homes in the paddy fields of southern Luzon. Their mission: to march on the presidential palace in Manila and overthrow the government...
...Leftists often act as if they had no memory and had read no history; they seem unaware of the Communist-organized rebellions in Greece and Malaya, the invasion of South Korea, the repression of the Hungarian uprising, the Berlin Wall. While they are theoretically opposed to any dictatorship they endlessly make allowances for Communist regimes; they feel outraged by U.S. leaders while either apologizing for or extolling Castro and Mao, and of course they want instant, unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, heedless of the consequences. "We refuse to be anti-Communist," declared Lynd and Hayden in a statement written...