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...with excitement as delegates gathered for the third annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asia. Phalanxes of motorcycle police escorted shiny official limousines to meetings at the pale, domed conference hall in the heart of the city. Inside the paneled auditorium and at diplomatic cocktail parties, an endless stream of dignitaries strolled up to greet the man who was the focus of everyone's attention. Malaya's stocky, smiling Prime Minister Abdul Rahman. 60. the golf-playing ex-playboy who this summer will bring into being a new Asian nation...
...Abdul Rahman who sold the scheme. The Tunku wined and dined a continuous stream of Borneo delegations in Kuala Lumpur, warmed up Borneo leaders cool to the federation with promises of favored political positions in the new nation. He shrewdly offered the Borneo territories 70 seats in the federal parliament, against only 15 for far more populous Singapore and 104 for Malaya. He promised tax concessions and a $12 million dollop of Malayan aid annually to the territories, agreed to keep federal hands off Brunei's oil reserves. It was the Tunku's fondest hope that...
Since last Spring when the Radcliffe Government Association was conceived, it has for the most part busied itself with rules considerations. The new rules emerged last spring and ever since a steady stream of revisions has been forthcoming. In past months haggling over such revisions has consumed most RGA meetings. The discussions have been unnecessarily drawn out and uninformed with respect to the difficulties in the administration of the existing rules and the desires of the student body. In addition, RGA has not yet begun to explore other problems confronting Radcliffe...
Down Home. The music came from the same pure stream Gus first tapped while working along the Mississippi levees and bumming around on Beale Street-the honest blues invented by people who had something to be blue about. But success now altered the atmosphere. Stax engineers tried hard to get a bluesy ''down-home" sound, and an English professor named John Quincy Wolf stood by as a consultant on ethnic authenticity. The Voice of America even sent a reporter to Cannon, armed with a tape recorder and an only-in-America enthusiasm: "This could be the start...
...clock one morning, Agung erupted again. The villages of Sebudi, Sorgah, and Sebih were engulfed by a lethal black cloud of searing, 230° ash that roasted hundreds where they knelt. Rivers of grey-black lava boiled over Agung's southern lip and flowed in fiery rivulets down stream beds, raising clouds of steam; heavy rains, possibly caused by the heat of the volcano, mixed with the sulphurous ash to form an acid that killed plant life for five miles around...