Word: sabah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired a committee that was irreconcilably split over whether to salvage or liquidate the bank, named another that dickered with Kid der, Peabody. The key to the rescue deal was winning the consent of Intra's major creditors, notably that of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber al Ahmed as Sabah, whose countrymen had the largest stake ($40 million) in the bank. Kuwaitis will own some 35% of the stock to be issued by the new organization, the Lebanese government 25%, Qatar sheiks 7%, Lebanese depositors most of the balance. U.S. taxpayers also stand to gain from the rescue. The Agriculture...
...merdeka - freedom. In a mile-long procession and countless do-it-yourself fiestas, brightly costumed citizens, many of them from remote kampongs, beat on Malay drums, Chinese cymbals and Kadazan tom-toms. Sarawak Dyaks played flutes with their noses and blue-clad Chinese acrobats and Bajau horsemen from Sabah performed, while Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, 64, watched from a blue Bentley convertible flanked by three ceremonial elephants...
...forced to seek more orders from the Soviet markets, which already constitute its biggest buyers. And the country's large and enterprising Chinese minority still threatens to cause trouble over the establishment of Malay as the official language. In East Malaysia - the Kansas-sized states of Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo's northern coast - Communist terrorists based in Indonesia harass rubber plantations and lines of communications, diverting money and manpower needed for development...
...cost Malaysia and her British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
Plea for U.S. Support. First on the agenda was a special message from Jordan's King Hussein and Kuwait's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed es Sabah. The gist of their joint communication as delivered by the Shah: the U.S. must find some way of expressing concrete support for the Arab moderates, lest pressure from the left force them to look to Russia for future support and assistance. The most practical support, suggested the Shah, would be arms. Not only was the Shah concerned about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms...