Word: penang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gain broader support among Malaysia's 3,000,000-plus Chinese minority, the Communists have played on traditional racial antagonism against the Malays. Recent Communist-organized harassments have included bloody race rioting on the offshore island of Penang. The Communists are not strong enough to contemplate open insurrection now, but the Malaysian government fears that they are preparing to make a bid for power when British troops withdraw from Malaysia in 1971 as part of their pull-out east of Suez...
...Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions. This month, some 30,000 will wing off from the chill monsoon rains of the DMZ or the muddy Del ta for a five-day fling to a list of cities that now includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Manila, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and, most recently, Sydney.-It is probably something only the world's richest country could afford. To provide it, the Government pays Pan Am $23,500,000 a year for its service, which now runs 45 jet flights every month to Honolulu alone, 65 monthly DC-6 flights...
...fitted within 48 hours. Hong Kong is also the most popular R & R center for the Seventh Fleet; the arrival and departure of U.S. ships coming off patrol duty off Viet Nam is recorded on an updated blackboard at many a bar-dancehall in its famed Wanchai district. Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore get fewer applicants-mostly those who want to avoid the sight of fellow Americans...
...devaluation to a mere 5.7%. In Malaysia, which took the curious step of devaluing its old, but still circulating, sterling-backed currency though not its new gold-backed dollar, eight were killed and 137 hurt when a protest demonstration erupted into a furious battle between Chinese and Malays in Penang. The Government feared that, with Communists doing all they could to take advantage of the situation, the disturbances might spread across the country...
Unfinished Business. Malaysia is not only the world's biggest producer of tin and rubber, but it has also developed scores of new enterprises to cash in on the country's other mineral and agricultural resources. A new university has been built in Penang, and a steel mill is going up at Prai. The Tunku's Alliance Party supports...