Word: malaysian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative line in Latin America. Among the Asian parties that are staying away are the Japanese, who are hoping for a rapprochement between their party and China. Revisionist Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, who broke with the Cominform in 1948, was not even invited. Neither were the Burmese, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian Communists, probably as punishment for their closeness with China...
...want," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "is sufficient time to develop my own muscles." At week's end Lee flew off to Britain to seek a reprieve. His trump card: 400 million pounds sterling in his own and Malaysian reserves, which could cause great damage to the pound's value if exchanged for yen or other currencies. Whatever happens, Singapore seems destined to move even closer to Japan, whose businessmen already hold one-quarter of Singapore's industries and were conveniently in conference there last week...
Sunday, December 31 DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Peace Corps" takes a look at the preparations for Far Eastern service at the Peace Corps training center in Hawaii: les sons in everything from bathing in a sarong to paddling a Malaysian canoe...
Numbering 750 hard-core fighters, plus several thousand support troops, the guerrillas have repeatedly attacked Indonesian military sites and terrorized Malaysian border areas since July. They have also tried to enlist by intimidation Borneo's primitive Dayak tribesmen, the descendants of legendary headhunters. This tactic provoked a reaction that their Maoist guerrilla handbooks did not even hint at. Meeting terror with terror, the Dayaks exploded in an avenging rampage of killing, burning and cannibalism against all Chinese...
...troops, but the guerrillas themselves remain threatening and elusive. As in Viet Nam, they burrow deep in underground bunkers and in mountainside caves, attack only when they consider the odds right. Two weeks ago, 500 guerrillas caught Indonesian troops in a heavy mortar barrage at Fir Mountain, near the Malaysian Borneo state of Sarawak, where the soldiers had stumbled upon a major guerrilla encampment. While the Indonesians flew in more troops, the Malaysians evacuated Indonesian casualties...