Word: power
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Mostly Nameless. During a recent speech before "Pro America," a conservative women's club, Yorty said that Los Angeles is an "experimental area for the taking over of a city by a combination of bloc voting, Black Power, left-wing radicals and, if you please, identified Communists." The evil characters that Yorty has warned of remain mostly nameless. His Red menace in the Bradley camp amounts to a campaign coordinator, Don Rothenberg, who left the party in 1956. Since then, Rothenberg has worked for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid and in the losing campaign of Oregon Senator...
...Longer Satisfied. From its inception, Malaysia has been haunted by racial divisions. By tacit agreement, the Federation's 4,300,000 Malays under Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman wielded political power. Economic power was largely in the hands of Malaysia's 3,400,000 Chinese. There are also the 1,000,000 Indians and Pakistanis who make up the third major ethnic group. What made it all work was the Tunku's Alliance coalition, in which Malay, Chinese and Indian parties participated. But for some time the Chinese and Indians had feared that eventually they would...
...trouble began two weeks ago, when newly formed Chinese opposition parties cut heavily into the Alliance's majority in parliamentary elections. It became suddenly apparent that many Chinese were no longer satisfied with just economic hegemony, but wanted a protective share of the political power as well. Nothing was more surely calculated to frighten the Malays, in particular the Malay "ultras" (right-wingers), who have long preached the doctrine of Malaysia for the Malays. Alarmed, the ultras began to discuss ways of retaining control. At a Malay post-election meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Chinese onlookers began to taunt those...
Returning to Singapore. Struggling to restore order as the fighting mushroomed, the Tunku and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak took power into their own hands. Parliament was suspended, as were constitutional guarantees. Total administrative power was taken by the newly formed, all-powerful National Operations Council headed by Razak, which proceeded to suspend publication of all Malaysian newspapers for several days. Arrests began. Ninety-three alleged terrorists were bagged in a swoop on a Chinese apartment building in Kuala Lumpur, and Razak reported that all Communists and known sympathizers were being rounded up. Razak and the Tunku blamed...
...visit to the bigger nations lies ahead. The mission returns home this week. It resumes May 27, headed for such eventual destinations as Argentina and Brazil, where military regimes are in power. One of the first stops is Peru, headed on a collision course with Washington over compensation for the expropriation of the International Petroleum Co.'s properties...