Word: yew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only controls entry to the Red Sea but is an ideal base from which to expand influence into the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The Soviets may also be able to use the facilities of the big British naval base at Singapore, which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said he will rent to all comers after the Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east...
...South Viet Nam, the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia keenly feel each tug and convulsion of the Vietnamese war. Increasingly, many of them consider their future to be linked directly to the war. "The eventual fate of South and Southeast Asia," Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last week, "depends more and more on the decisions of America, China and Russia than on the decisions of the nations of the area." Even as Lee spoke, new troubles plagued Viet Nam's neighbors-and prompted their leaders to speak out in warning. >In Laos, the major staging...
...want," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "is sufficient time to develop my own muscles." At week's end Lee flew off to Britain to seek a reprieve. His trump card: 400 million pounds sterling in his own and Malaysian reserves, which could cause great damage to the pound's value if exchanged for yen or other currencies. Whatever happens, Singapore seems destined to move even closer to Japan, whose businessmen already hold one-quarter of Singapore's industries and were conveniently in conference there last week...
...Most of the film was shot on location around Dallas. It was in a motel there that Beatty felt the first trickle of the torrent of controversy that would follow the film. "A huge waiter came in," he recalls, "and said to me, 'Hey Warren, 'at trew yew gone play Clahd Barra? Sheee! I knowed Clahd Barra, and he wuz much better lookin' than yew are.' " As it happens, Clyde Barrow was not much better looking than Mr. Hyde.* The encounter was simply an initial indication that Texas folk heroes are never to be taken lightly...
...thank the man who recorded what Lyndon Johnson told Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore: "You rode the tiger. We shall" [Oct. 27]. I believe Asians respect and recognize backbone, when Americans are courageous enough to walk beyond courage, to deface false bravery, to stretch our guts and show backbone, not only our backside...