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...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...
...maintain that the North Vietnamese are "at the edge of an abyss." To many of Asia's non-Communist capitals, however, it looks as if they are at the edge only because they just pushed somebody else over. Lam Son, concluded Singapore's tough Premier Lee Kuan Yew, "was asking more than the South Vietnamese army was ready to give or able to give." Berita Yudha, Indonesia's army-controlled newspaper, decided that the whole exercise merely "gave an opportunity for North Viet Nam to demonstrate its victory in battle...
...Kuan Yew, 47, Prime Minister of Singapore. One of Asia's most articulate statesmen, Lee is usually dismissed-and rules himself out-on the grounds that he is too much a man of action for the U.N.'s brand of turtle-race diplomacy. In addition, Lee may be too anti-Communist for the job. Nevertheless, his name is often mentioned...