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...materials. Singapore's leaders are trying to keep their nation's economy afloat by a massive switch from trade to manufacturing, are urging industrial countries to set up plants in Singapore and buy its products. If the switch fails, says Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee, "it's a certain deduction that the Communists will eventually win power by free elections"-a statement that is clearly made to elicit help and sympathy from...
...better since the separation than before. Though now independent, Singapore honored its defense commitments by sending half of its two-battalion army to replace a Malaysian detachment in Borneo, thus demolishing whatever prospects Singapore may have had of reconciliation with Indonesia. Singapore's Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee declared: "Our defense is indivisible," and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman clapped him on the back, saying, "We will do or die together." Ministers of the two states are holding a series of meetings on economic cooperation, as well as preparing to negotiate with Britain the rewriting of defense treaties...
...most serious opposition now comes from the left, including Communists within his party whom he at first tried to placate with government jobs. They are led by fiery young Fong Swee Suan, a secretary of the Trades Union Congress. Last week Fong attacked Lee for "softness on capitalism." Lee retaliated by summarily ordering Fong to "vacate" his post in the Labor Ministry...