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...special privileges" which go only to a few. Malay youth are never called up to serve in the armed forces, for example--a supposedly compulsory duty--and hence are denied advantages in employment and other privileges which go to national servicemen. They perform many of the society's more menial functions and are to be found in the ranks of gardeners, chauffeurs, office peons and other low-paid jobs...
About 30% of today's conscripts have passed the highly competitive ba-chot, which qualifies them to enter a university or specialized technical college. Nonetheless, they still spend most of their compulsory year of military service performing menial tasks. Unlike Dutch or West German soldiers, they are prohibited from wearing their hair long or engaging in any kind of political activity. Corporal punishment has been abolished, but the men are subjected to harsh discipline: an occasional kick in the pants from a sergeant is still used as a reprimand...
...moved in with a girl friend and supported herself with menial jobs. She remembers her social life at the time as an all-singing, all-dancing marathon on the Sunset Strip ("I'd go up there and dance till dawn"). When she was 16, she went out on a double date with her friend Melissa Melcher and met Melissa's boy next door-27-year-old, newly separated Sonny Bono. Not long after, he made her an offer she could not refuse: "Look, I don't find you particularly attractive and I have no designs...
...like the potty sister of a baron or the Queen of Fairyland. Subtle (Philip Kilbourne) is craggy and lanky with high cheekbones and his facial mugging supplies an ironic commentary over and above the script. Face is short, dark, and particularly good when affecting the part of a shuffling menial...
Loan Manager Noreen Lawless got together a list of unfilled menial jobs and began calling up her delinquent clients to offer them work. She had a lot of trou ble making people believe her. "They thought it was some kind of gimmick," she says. "They never had a bank offer to help them out before...