Word: sarawak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, whose predominantly non-Chinese populations would offset Singapore's Chinese, many of whom are openly proCommunist. But Lee, who has lost two by-elections in recent months, fortnight ago rushed to Kuala Lumpur to argue that his situation was deteriorating, and he cannot afford...
...much business as possible with the Communists from its Hong Kong headquarters, swapping Western chemicals and machinery for Chinese commodities. But the company also embarked on a major program of expansion into other areas. It bought up an importing and engineering company with outlets in Singapore, Malaya, Borneo and Sarawak. It stepped up tea marketing in the U.S. through Jardine. Balfour Inc.. branched into manufacturing with a $1,000,000 textile plant in Hong Kong...
...from repairing bicycles in Kenya to aiding sick Eskimos in Labrador. Wrote one Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have, as many as possible, and as quickly as you can." The stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities that would turn a grownup grey-or green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana, a 19-year...
Paddy Poopers. In Bario, Sarawak, a plague of rice-ravaging rats and mice pooped out after the British Royal Air Force parachuted a platoon of cats into the area...