Word: razak
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Britain and France took somewhat different approaches to the terrorism that afflicted their cities. After investigating two earlier killings-the murder of former Iraqi Premier Abdel Razak Nayef last month and the shooting of P.L.O. Representative Said Hammami in January-British authorities decided that Iraqi agents were deeply involved, and that Baghdad was using its embassy and airline to import weapons and killers. The Foreign Office as a result ordered home seven Iraqi diplomats and four other nationals. In retaliation, eight British diplomats and two other nationals were banished from Baghdad...
Died. Tun Abdul Razak, 53, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1970 who deftly laid down a nonalignment policy for his country and closely tended homegrown economic problems; of leukemia; in London...
Soon after the takeover, they tossed a three-page typewritten memo out of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless seven cronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance." Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines...
...Lumpur accepted its first Chinese Red Cross flood aid; last week it rolled out the red carpet for a sellout tour by the popular Communist Chinese Silver Star Cultural Troupe. With Rumania and other third-party countries acting as the middlemen, Malaysia's pragmatic new Premier Tun Abdul Razak has begun indirect negotiations with China, offering to open trade and diplomatic relations in return for Peking's promise not to support Malaysia's holdout guerrillas. He has already faced the wrenching decision forced by the "two Chinas" situation (TIME, Oct. 5): Malaysia is talking about closing down...
...Malaysia as the two rivers running through the capital overflowed, submerging most of the city under as much as twelve feet of water. While food and supplies were being flown in by helicopters from the Malaysian, Singapore, British and Australian air forces, Malaysia's Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak declared a situation of national disaster...