Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years and cost Malaysia and her British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
Into his place stepped the Sultan of Lahej, whose state is relatively prosperous because of its heavy trade in narcotics and firearms. It was unclear, however, just how much of the federation remained for the Sultan to govern. While the army looked the other way, another band of N.L.F. guerrillas made off with yet another member of the government, the Sultan of Lower Yafa. By week's end, the National Liberation Front-at present the stronger of the rebel groups-claimed it had gained control of ten states and would soon "overthrow the rest of the reactionary feudalists...
Nitty Belcher. At that point, shrewd old Jack Warner, sensing that Dennis was "going to be a very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
...light er fabrics. Another is that they do not understand the quantities in which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group of Britons has organized a marketing company called Lion & Unicorn, Ltd. after the royal coat of arms...
...Duke of Edinburgh on a U.S. tour to tout British goods. He heard complaints everywhere that Americans could never find suitable British products in their stores. Heald returned to London to round up partners and money, formed Lion & Unicorn as "an effective way to bring people together by trade...