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...trade difficulties with Japan, sniping across the DMZ in Korea, Communist insurgency in Thailand. Looking back, most of them agreed that perhaps the most pleasant days of the trip were spent in Malaysia, where they were entertained by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
...Line. Djakarta proved a happier setting for negotiations. In private meetings last week, Philippine Foreign Minister Narciso Ramos and Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak agreed to a "cooling off period," to last indefinitely, or at least, the Malaysians hoped, until after the Philippine national elections next year. Ramos made it clear that the agreement could prove a personal albatross: "It hangs around my neck. I expect to be criticized when I get back. In fact, I may be roasted alive." The Philippine government could repudiate Ramos' commitment at Djakarta, but only at the price...
...lost, Humphrey repeated in essence what he had said in Viet Nam: "We mean to stick it out." The Vice President's only defeat of the two-day Malaysian tour came in a golf match at the hands of Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak ("I'd like a little bit of technical aid from Malaysia," quipped Hubert). During a tour of the Malaysian Parliament, the Vice President sat in the Speaker's chair and ruefully commented: "The one at home is more wobbly, in more ways than...
...until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
With his development scheme, Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak is conducting his own Johnson-style "assault on poverty," which among other things has opened 200,000 acres of new farmland to 30,000 settlers. Since its founding in 1963, Malaysia has raised the G.N.P. of its 9.2 million people by an annual average...