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Manuel J. Cabral, Anthony T. Enders, Mark H. Feingold, John F. Grogan, Peng-Liu Mei, Bruce R. Parker, Peter A. Rayel, David T. Schwartz, Anthony J. Shafton, Christopher D. Stone, Donald E. Tingle, William A. Trebilcock, Mishael A. Wolf (captain), Gerald P. Kelly (manager...
...club established the Peng Yu (Friend) Club to serve the growing number of Chinese students and faculty members at the University of Washington...
Last year they set up Malaya's first popularly elected government, prepared for a period of temporary confusion and uncertainty while Malayans found their political feet. Chief Minister Prince (the Tengku) Abdul Rahman moved immediately to make peace with the Communists, offered an amnesty to Chin Peng, who has been waging guerrilla war in the jungle for eight years (TIME, Jan. 9). Stung by Chin Peng's taunt that Malaya would not be truly independent until it had control of the country's defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence...
...descended on them at the bitter end of 1949. The first Nationalist governor to take over from the Japanese at war's end had arrived with a retinue of carpetbaggers and incompetents. In 1947 a rebellion flared which lasted three days, was bloodily put down by General Peng Meng-chi, then commander of the Nationalist garrison and now acting chief of the general staff. Thousands were killed...
...dagger toward the Communist mainland seven miles away. After a few days of silence, Red guns had resumed their bombardment. Hour after hour the loudspeakers screamed across the sea to the dug-in Nationalists that the Reds would take Quemoy by Oct. 15. In Peking, Defense Minister General Peng Teh-huai ordered his troops to "be constantly prepared for combat" and promised, "We shall assuredly free Formosa from the yoke of American imperialists...