Word: yew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manila included Benigno Aquino, an opposition Liberal Party Senator and presidential aspirant whom Marcos has had arrested as a Communist collaborator. In July, Aquino argued in the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review that "our people are ready for leadership. Right now they will accept even a Lee Kuan Yew or a Chung Hee Park. They will accept a diminution in civil liberties if only these are properly explained to them. You can cut corners now." Marcos had cut the corners all right, but whether he could stitch them together again remained to be seen...
...late 18th century, Australia was a British penal colony. Nowadays, to hear Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew tell it, the place is not a bad reform school. Lee has been dealing with budding campus revolutionaries in his tight little island nation by packing them off with scholarships to universities in affluent industrial democracies like Australia. "What you want to do is disperse them and open them up to new ideas," Lee says enthusiastically. Results? "They've come back fairly middle class and comfortable, although still armchair critics...
...when Indonesia was waging a new guerrilla war against Malaysia, Britain met the threat by maintaining a force of 70,000 men in the area. "But for the forces of the Far East Command during the years of confrontation," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "it would have been a very different Southeast Asia." The annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station there only what...
...that Agnew is carrying a message of good will as well as an "explanation of the Nixon foreign policy." That should leave ample time for golf: enroute to South Korea, Agnew toured the course in Guam. He plans a "logistics" stay in Singapore, whose Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is an ardent golfer...
SINGAPORE calmly allows the Chinese to operate a major bank on its soil, the North Koreans to run endless ads in its newspapers extolling the virtues of Kim Il Sung, and Soviet ships to call at its superb port. The Soviet fleet, says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, could be a "useful balancing force" to growing Chinese and Japanese power...