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Ever since its victorious, twelve-year guerrilla war against Communist rebels, rubber-rich Malaya has been an eye of calm amidst the storm of Southeast Asia. From its plantations comes 40% of the world's rubber, and scores of new schools and factories give evidence of its quietly booming economy. But for some time Malaya has cast a wary eye at the spread of Communist influence directly to the south. On the island state of Singapore, Red-lining extremists threaten to topple the local government, and the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo...
...groundwork was laid for two new common markets; one would link five Arab nations, and another six African countries (Egypt judiciously proposes to join both). Africa, in fact, is building three common markets. Two more have been launched in Latin America, and an Asian market has been proposed by Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines...
...This is the kind of war the U.S. faces in South Viet Nam. How can it be won? The Communists have made a mystique of guerrilla war by winning a dozen brilliant campaigns from Yugoslavia to the mainland of China. But the Communists have lost. too. especially in Greece, Malaya and the Philippines. Says one Washington official: "In Greece 15 years ago, the existing government was reactionary and a lot of people screamed that we could not win with it. But we did. and the political situation took care of itself." Says Averell Harriman. the key Washington official in shaping...
...Hukbalahaps in the Philippines had no friendly sanctuary just over the frontier, and their strength evaporated when the late President Magsaysay fought them economically as well as with guns. In Malaya, the Communist guerrillas had no contiguous border with a Red country and. being mostly Chinese, they were distinct from the Malays, who disliked them on principle. Even so, it took twelve years and 350,000 soldiers, police, and militia for Malaya to wipe out 12,000 isolated Communist guerrillas...
South Viet Nam has twice as many Red guerrillas in a country only slightly larger than Malaya. Just across the 17th Parallel lies Communist North Viet Nam, which eagerly sends men and munitions down jungle trails to the south. Beyond North Viet Nam lies Red China, and to the west, sharing a 150-mile jungle border, lies chaotic Laos, where last week the Reds took another stronghold. In Laos, U.S. policy appears exactly opposite that in South Viet Nam. The border is held by the Communist Pathet Lao, and Soviet transport planes daily land supplies at Tchepone. close...