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Faced with a Communist guerrilla uprising in Malaya in 1948, the British prepared for a long piecemeal war. While infantry patrols harried the Reds in the impenetrable jungle, the British used a "carpet sweeper" technique on the jungle's edges: gathering up peasants from isolated huts and hamlets and concentrating them in walled "strategic" villages protected by troops and home guards...
INCLINED TOWARD PEKING but split, the parties of Burma, Indonesia, Malaya, Morocco, Thailand...
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...preliminary course was given in Mexico City last July, and a revised course will be offered again in February. In April, Research Associate George Litwin will travel to Japan, Malaya, India, Nigeria, Italy, and London to initiate the course in most or all of those countries. Instruction will be given through management consultant firms once they are established...
...months, leaders of the island state of Singapore and of the rubber-rich, independent Federation of Malaya, just across the bridge on Asia's mainland, have quietly discussed a merger of the two territories in a "Malaysian" federation. Unwitting spurs to the scheme are Singapore's Red-leaning, left-wing extremists (mostly Chinese), whose rising influence threatens the regime of moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and could stall Singapore's slow but steady move from British colonial status toward full independence. Fearful of chaos ahead, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman now shares...