Word: malayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encephalitis (arborvirus-caused brain inflammation, more prevalent in Asia and Europe than in U.S.). Vaccines to date have been unsatisfactory or actually dangerous for man. Work is in progress on virus found in Malayan rodents in hopes that its protein overcoat will prove to be of a basic pattern that will trigger formation of antibodies against several close-kin viruses...
...tons of tin), sent enough abroad, mostly to the U.S., to boost its foreign exchange reserves to a healthy $430 million. More than 95% of Malaya's children attend primary school, 100,000 automobiles ply a network of well-surfaced new roads, and Malaya's one airline (Malayan Airways Ltd.) has a perfect safety record after 14 years of operation. "We want to create the climate for good business," says Prime Minister Abdul Rahman. "We must raise the standard of living through economic development and achieve unity through education-and the hell with highfalutin political ideas...
...continent. What happens in the vast north of Asia soon reverberates in Malaya. Though temporarily cowed, a few Communists still try to burrow their way into trade unions and political parties, waiting their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern Scholar...
Rural Resettlement. The Malayan government hopes to cure all its national ills with a heavy dose of economic planning. Among other things, it offers some of Southeast Asia's most generous tax concessions to foreign industries. Aluminium Ltd. of Canada is planning a $1,500,000 aluminum rolling plant at Petaling Jaya, Dunlop has begun construction of a $25,000,000 tire factory, and a Japanese Malayan iron and steel plant will be operating at Lunut by 1964. A massive hydroelectric plant, mostly financed by a $35.6 million loan from the World Bank, is under construction in the Cameron...
...government is moving even faster in the countryside. Hopeful that higher-yield rubber trees will enable Malayan rubber to compete with synthetics in the years ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak, 39, is trying to get 50,000 more acres a year under cultivation. To work the land, he is resettling farmers in self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor...