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...Kwan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore. has returned to Harvard as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics of the Kennedy School of Government...
Because of the uproar, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew hastily postponed his first visit in 19 months to Malaysia. "We tender our apologies for any inconvenience caused," said Lee, who personally had ordered the anti-hippie campaign. "But it is not irreparable; it will grow back in a matter of weeks." He added, however, that if the loss of hair had made the young men less attractive to their girl friends, "we will send up wigs...
...swing through Asia next week, President Nixon will skip Singapore, domain of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The omission is dictated by an understandably tight schedule, but it will deprive the President of some pertinent impressions. Lee, a Cambridge-educated pragmatist, has to a large degree succeeded in creating the sort of independent and self-assured nation that Nixon hopes will develop throughout the Far East. In the past decade, he has turned the island nation of 2,000,000 into Asia's second most affluent country. Though Singapore's population contains the Malay-Chinese mix that...
...Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, tour members lunched with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who warned against a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam. At week's end the travelers jetted off to Indonesia for conferences with President Suharto and Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Visits to South Korea and Japan lay ahead before they crossed the international dateline on the trip home...
Sensing this attitude, many delegates expressed concern. "Britain feels that the task of leadership is onerous," said Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman. "It has lost the power and the will to use it." After "centuries of responsibility," agreed Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, "a mood of disenchantment and withdrawal is all pervasive. Britain has decided to put British interests first." To an extent, that is true. Britain simply has had it as the Commonwealth doormat, and the other members are beginning to acknowledge this change of mood and to handle the crotchety old schoolmaster with uncharacteristic care...