Word: tuanku
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...SWORN IN. ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, 63, as Malaysia's fifth prime minister; by King Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra; at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur. The Mr. Nice Guy of Malaysian politics, Abdullah succeeds combative predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, 77, who retired after 22 years at the country's helm. Abdullah fell out with Mahathir in 1988 when he joined a group that unsuccessfully challenged the Prime Minister's leadership of the ruling party. In 1991 the rift was healed when Mahathir named him Foreign Minister...
...Died. Tuanku (i.e., ruler) Abdul Rahman, 65, English-trained lawyer and Malayan state chief who, when Malaya became an independent federation within the British Commonwealth in 1957, was elected to a five-year term as the nation's first nonhereditary king (at the same time that Tengku [prince] Abdul Rahman, no kin, became the federation's Prime Minister); in his sleep; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
Died. Tengku Sir Badlishah, 64, Sultan of Malaya's Kedah state, who once zipped around the peninsula in a canary-colored Rolls-Royce, was elder brother of Malaya's Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, son-in-law of Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Paramount Ruler; of a heart attack which came while he was playing tennis; in Alor Star, Malaya...
...often confused with, Malaya's newly elected paramount ruler, His Majesty Tuanku Abdul Rahman...
...second man on the list got the necessary majority. Malaya's new ruler will be Tuanku Abdul Rahman, of the Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. This is sure to cause endless confusion, because the present Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya is also named Abdul Rahman, and will continue in office as Prime Minister after independence. The name is a common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons...