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Club membership rose from a handful to 30 or 40 students following Ronald Reagan's conservative landslide. Habib Malik, another graduate advisor to the club, said earlier this sumer. Malik attributed the jump to "disappointment and disgruntlement with the liberal orthodoxy on campus...
...Charles Malik, former Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S., at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.: "They tell you there is steady progress in history; they tell you modern man is better and happier than any man in the past; they tell you we are more advanced, spiritually, morally, intellectually than all the ages of the past. This is all false. In the more important things in life, history does not disclose steady progress. There are a few shining peaks of the spirit with many intervening sloughs and valleys...
...blame on Peking. Also, like other Southeast Asian nations, Indonesia has an economically prosperous minority of ethnic Chinese that is widely resented and mistrusted by the rest of the population. As a result, anti-Chinese sentiment is always just beneath the surface of Indonesian politics. Explains Vice President Adam Malik: "We've always seen a danger from both the Soviet Union and China. For a long time we were not sure which was the most threatening. However, since the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we realize the immediate threat is from the Soviet Union...
...Malik is a onetime president of the United Nations General Assembly and Indonesia's best-known statesman. As a civilian, however, he does not fully represent the military-dominated government. President Suharto, a former general, has recently told visiting U.S. Congressmen and Western diplomats that he still regards China as a bigger long-term threat to Indonesia than the U.S.S.R...
...Malik, the power behind the bizarre killings in Trinidad, is Naipaul's symbol for this "deep corruption" of language. "Michael X and the Black Killings in Trinidad" tells the story of an immigrant from Trinidad who discovers Black liberation while living in London and brings a rhetoric of revolution back home. He speaks of revolution without plans or programs, and it wins him power, money and followers. When the money runs out he needs a new way to hold his followers together. The murders of two devotees provide a solution...