Word: malayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eradicates many of Powell's figurants. The ditching of the Yugoslav Chetnik Leader Mihailovich in favor of Tito costs the life of Peter Templer, one of Jenkins' oldest friends (and a veteran of novel No. 1, A Question of Upbringing), who fought with the wrong partisans. The Malayan debacle takes another of Powell's veteran characters, Charles Stringham, P.O.W. and presumed dead. The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that killed both men turns out to be the egregious Kenneth Widmerpool, whose fatuous careerism and brassbound egotism have provided veins of comedy running through all nine books...
Talks with Thailand. By 1960, after twelve years of bitter guerrilla fighting in Malaya, most of the country's 10,000 Communist terrorists had been subdued by British and Malayan forces. The drive was a notable success, often wistfully compared with the considerably different results in Viet Nam. But the Communists have never completely abandoned the field. Going underground, pro-Mao Communists have infiltrated trade unions and set up cover organizations and political parties. Worried officials report that in Sarawak, bordering Indonesian territory, Communists have successfully penetrated the whole fabric of society, from political parties to schools. In some...
...ways to prevent the formation of dangerous and possibly fatal blood clots. First there was heparin, extracted from the livers and lungs of beef cattle. Then came coumarins, made from rotted sweet clover. Now some British researchers believe they have found what they want in the venom of a Malayan pit viper, close kin to American rattlesnakes...
...flash points in two decades of cold war, non-Communists and Communists have managed to work out some let-live arrangements. Analogies are dubious because the Vietnamese situation is different from all others; for example, the South Koreans did not have to contend with an internal rebellion, and the Malayan Communists botched their own revolt. Even so, recent history has some worthwhile lessons for Viet Nam. Giving political rights to large Communist parties-as France and Italy did after World War II-does not necessarily subvert democracy. In Laos, the U.S. and other nations agreed with the Communists...
...vote, he was ready to try another kind of takeover. To a 10,000-strong network of Viet Minh he had left behind in the South, he sent orders for the start of what has now become the century's second longest war in Asia (after the Malayan guerrilla war against the British...