Word: malaya
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...without previous experience of Africa I went on an absurd and reckless trek through Liberia: it was the fear of boredom which took me to Tabasco during the religious persecution, to a leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong war against boredom...
...well-known story that Anthony Burgess began writing in earnest in 1959, when a doctor in Malaya told him he had a brain tumor and barely a year to live. In order to leave his ailing wife some kind of security, he returned to England and wrote five novels in one year. There was no tumor, but even after he heard the good news, Burgess never stopped working-or moving around. Disgusted by high taxes and public indifference, he left London after his wife died, continued his hectic pace in Malta, Rome, and this year Princeton...
Wars of the frogs are not uncommon in Malaysia, and zoologists theorize that they are battles for mating grounds. To superstitious Malaysians, however, they are portents of national disaster. Soon after a particularly vicious frog war in the early 1940s, the Japanese invaded and occupied Malaya. The country's twelve-year struggle against Communist terrorists began after frogs warred in Kedah in 1948. Two weeks before violent race riots erupted in Kuala Lumpur in early 1969, there had been a huge frog battle near Penang. Thus when the latest frog fight broke out at Sungei Siput in November, local...
Suave, controlled and bearing a striking resemblance to the late actor Herbert Marshall, the Cambridge-educated Thompson, 53, was knighted for devising the strategy that ultimately defeated local Chinese Communist terrorists in Malaya in the 1950s. He was then Britain's secretary for defense of the Federation of Malaya; later (1961-65), he served as head of the British advisory mission in Viet Nam. Now retired from government, he is an occasional consultant for the Rand Corp., the noted U.S. think tank. His experience in Malaya convinced Thompson that counterinsurgency does not require massive forces, large-scale bombing...
...Trend. More roads are opened monthly; highway drives that would have been considered suicidal two years ago can now be made as a matter of course. Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya and is now a Rand Corp. consultant, recently returned to Viet Nam to sound out the situation for President Nixon. He told the President last week, says a White House official, "that things felt much better and smelled much better over there...