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...proxy vote, when Bywater finally realized he had lost, he called off the fight and resigned from the board with two other directors, leaving the government in control with a seven-man majority on the board. Within hours, Bywater was replaced as chairman by Tun Tan Siew Sin, Malaysia's former Finance Minister. Said Bywater: "I guess we just ran out of steam...
...Died. Tun Abdul Razak, 53, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1970 who deftly laid down a nonalignment policy for his country and closely tended homegrown economic problems; of leukemia; in London...
Your reviewer tried putting a feather in my back by writing that while Paar put on Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett presented Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Lester Maddox. Your research and/or bias could just as honestly have stated that while Cavett presented Tiny Tun, George Jessel and Totie Fields, Paar put on John and Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
...month Kuala Lumpur accepted its first Chinese Red Cross flood aid; last week it rolled out the red carpet for a sellout tour by the popular Communist Chinese Silver Star Cultural Troupe. With Rumania and other third-party countries acting as the middlemen, Malaysia's pragmatic new Premier Tun Abdul Razak has begun indirect negotiations with China, offering to open trade and diplomatic relations in return for Peking's promise not to support Malaysia's holdout guerrillas. He has already faced the wrenching decision forced by the "two Chinas" situation (TIME, Oct. 5): Malaysia is talking about...
...rest of Malaysia as the two rivers running through the capital overflowed, submerging most of the city under as much as twelve feet of water. While food and supplies were being flown in by helicopters from the Malaysian, Singapore, British and Australian air forces, Malaysia's Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak declared a situation of national disaster...