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...wept during a political speech, blamed Chinese Maoists for the riots. While Chinese Communists did constitute a real problem until 1960, when they were finally rooted out after a twelve-year campaign, the racial disharmony was strictly homegrown. Until the riots started, Malaysia enjoyed a prosperous economy based on tin, rubber and palm oil. But the wealth was not spread equitably. Like the Tunku, many Malays have a leisurely lifestyle, a world apart from that of the bustling, aggressive Chinese. Consequently, the Chinese, and to a lesser extent Indians, outpaced the Malays in per capita income...
...Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka, which formed the first course of a feast that lasted well into the night, as Anson set about regaining some of those lost pounds. He reports on his experience in this week's World section...
...skilled labor and business expertise. Tripoli's fashionable shopping area is half deserted because the Italian-owned shops have all been shuttered. Unemployment has risen to an estimated 20%. The regime's vacillation has held up housing projects; much of the urban population still lives in tin shacks. The regime is even tampering with the industry that provides 99% of the nation's earnings. It has ordered a cutback of 700,000 bbl. of oil a day, one-fifth of production, on the grounds that Libya's reserves are endangered. At the same time...
...most ambiguous pseudo jobs ever dissembled by the mind of organization man. He clips murder stories from news papers for a homicide bureau in a large Eastern city. Neither true dick nor full flack, he keeps his gun at the office and carries a "badgette" rather than the big tin of real homicide...
From the air, Saigon appears to shimmer in the midday sunshine. The light dances off mile after mile of tin-roof shacks, and reflects from the waters of serpentine rivers. On the ground, unfortunately, the city has lost its glitter. Though it remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing...