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...said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "it would have been a very different Southeast Asia." The annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station there only what the current Conservative government of Edward Heath describes as a "modest insurance premium"-one infantry battalion and a few miscellaneous units in a symbolic ANZUK force of 7,000 men, mainly from Australia and New Zealand. In case...
...Haron, counselor of the Malaysian Embassy in Washington, D.C. accompanied Karuna-Karan at the time of the arrest. Karuna-Karan said Ben-Haron told him that he would write a letter to the Cambridge City Council protesting the arrest...
Like a growing number of countries in the Far East, the Malaysian government decided to cash in on gambling as a means of raising much-needed revenue. Surprisingly, the venture provoked little criticism from Malaysia's conservative Islamic population, and the government plans to issue more casino licenses. But, as Finance Minister Tan Siew Sin puts it, such casinos will be confined "to areas that are relatively inaccessible so that the poorer sections of our community cannot patronize them even if they want...
After the granting of independence to Malaysia by the British, Malay aristocrats from the Thai south appealed to the U. N. to allow them to join the Federation of Malaysia, but the new Malaysian government, faced with a "confrontation" from Indonesia and a fragile electoral division between the Chinese and Malays, disowned the irredentist movement...
What is the solution? Rashai had a single word-"autonomy." The Malaysian government doesn't want trouble with the Thais over the region, explains Rashai, so there should be no fear by the Thais that an autonomous Pattani region would join the Malaysian Federation. He feels that giving the Malays control over local affairs would not only win their loyalty, but deprive the communists of their loyal support. "The people aren't communist, or pro-Malaysia but only anti-Thai, and the Thais could rectify that situation in a few weeks by granting them a bigger voice in government...