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...sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, whose predominantly non-Chinese populations would offset Singapore's Chinese, many of whom are openly proCommunist. But Lee, who has lost two by-elections in recent months, fortnight ago rushed to Kuala Lumpur to argue...
...reservists." He sounded almost defensive in justifying his proclaimed need for a unilateral peace treaty with his East Germans. "If we renounced the conclusion of a peace treaty," he said, after having vowed to sign it, Western powers "would regard this as a strategic break-through and would widen the range of their demands at once...
...event of a Chinese-American dispute, Hsu explained, the Soviet Union would support Peiping anyway. He indicated that any American attempt to widen the split might backfire...
Last week it seemed likely that all this would change, although naturally not for the better. Next fall, to endear itself to its affiliated stations, ABC will widen its yap gap on night-time programs to 40 seconds. CBS and NBC, of course, will meet the competition...
Last week Cy Widen, now 43, an Air Force major and a training officer for several fighter squadrons at Malmstrom A.F.B. in Great Falls, Mont., leafed through his diary to stir that 18-year-old memory. The leafing was prompted by the news of a strange sequel. From a West German soldier named Alfons Hafner came word of a promise that he had made to his brother Toni before the ace died during the war: Alfons would find the American pilot and give him some remembrance of that brief encounter in Tunisia. Ace Toni did not know the American...