Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also the recession where more statistics get more microscopic study than ever before, as every economist-amateur or professional-searches to discover whether the U.S. economy is going up, down or sideways. The only trouble is that statistics, like dry martinis, should be handled with care. For a prime example of how befuddling statistics can be, see BUSINESS, Unemployment Figures...
Were he a less determined man. Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman might well be tempted, after less than one year as head of the new Federation of Malaya, to feel a trifle complacent about the sorry state of the once formidable Communist jungle rebels who for so long terrorized his land. Today, more than half of Malaya's 50,000 square miles have been officially declared "white," i.e., free of all terrorists. Less than 1,000 Communists are still active, mostly in the southern state of Johore and the central state of Perak. For the most part, they...
When Malaya won her independence last August, Prime Minister Rahman announced that he hoped the anti-terrorist war would be over on Malaya's first birthday. For the people of the "nonwhite" areas who must live under virtual martial law and are plagued by rationing,* by 4 p.m. curfews, and the constant dread of bombardment, a cease-fire would be a welcome birthday present indeed. But they will apparently have to do without it. The Prince is made nervous by Communist gains in Indonesia, just across the Strait of Malacca, and is eager to get his own house...
Stay Out. Last month, when the Soviets sent an oversized 38-man delegation to a U.N.-sponsored conference in Malaya and tried to reverse Rahman's adamant refusal to have diplomatic relations with Communist countries, the Prime Minister bluntly told them: "We cannot allow representatives of Communist countries here while we are fighting Communists in the jungle. We just cannot have ties with you." Later, when 35 British Labor M.P.s demanded that Britain withdraw her troops from Malaya, they got no support from Rahman. Rather than urge British troops to go home, the Cambridge-educated Prince insists that...
...Strongmen who die in bed usually do so in exile. If he is smart, Batista would like very much to retire again as he did in 1944; he is once again rich. He is not running in the general election scheduled for November 30, and the Batista-supported candidate--Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero--has been campaigning as a "great compromiser," promising political amnesty for rebels. Rivero may be sincere; if he is, Castro and his men are wasting their time, for Batista will be giving constitutional government back to the Cuban people in the fall...