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...report that in order to ensure a more stable Pakistan the former military general step down immediately. "It is time to recognize that democracy, not an artificially propped-up, defrocked, widely despised general - has the best chance to provide stability and turn back extremists' gains," wrote Robert Templer, Crisis Group's Asia Program Director. The government, as expected, responded vociferously, saying that the report "badly lacks appreciation and knowledge of the environment and conditions prevailing in Pakistan" - ignoring the fact that ICG has had a presence in Pakistan for several years...
...BILL TEMPLER...
...roman-fleuve lies in keeping track of the pasts and permutations of vast numbers of characters. One way and another, the war introduces and eradicates many of Powell's figurants. The ditching of the Yugoslav Chetnik Leader Mihailovich in favor of Tito costs the life of Peter Templer, one of Jenkins' oldest friends (and a veteran of novel No. 1, A Question of Upbringing), who fought with the wrong partisans. The Malayan debacle takes another of Powell's veteran characters, Charles Stringham, P.O.W. and presumed dead. The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that killed both...
...spring, the allies should outnumber the enemy 4 to 1-far less than the nearly 10-to-l superiority that Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer enjoyed in Malaya's twelve-year
Problem of Etiquette. A more pertinent case than Korea is the battle put up by the British in Malaya. There, led by General Sir Gerald Templer, they tenaciously fought Communist guerrillas side by side with Malayan nationals, throwing thousands and thousands of British soldiers into the war until it was finally and totally won in 1960. Because Malaya was a British colony, there was no problem of diplomatic etiquette, of waiting for an invitation before plunging into combat, such as the U.S. has had to face in Viet...