Word: malaysian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the border in Borneo, the Federation's far-flung security force-Malaysian, British and Australian-now faces an estimated 10,000 Indonesian troops. In the Riauw Archipelago, just across from Singapore, Indonesia's crack Siliwangi Division awaits President Sukarno's irredentist orders. Since late April, Malaysian patrols have annihilated four major raiding parties from the Indonesian side, severely mauled a fifth. And Sukarno's increasingly desperate "Crush Malaysia" campaign has spawned ugly new tactics. Items...
Plenty to Celebrate. The main theme of the week, of course, was "crush Malaysia," and Sukarno's invaders were trying to do just that. In the biggest action of the two-year border war, more than 100 Indonesian regulars tackled British and Malaysian troops in a running jungle battle on Sarawak...
Concentrates the Blood. University of Oklahoma's Professor of Medicine Stewart Wolf, who was working on heart disease, and seven physicians (six Americans, one Malaysian) working on hyaline membrane disease at Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Hospital, all found themselves reaching back to studies of ducks and seals-experiments that were in some cases nearly a century old. When those aquatic creatures swim below the surface, a "dive" reflex slows their heartbeats and contracts their peripheral arteries, thus concentrating the available oxygenated blood in the heart and brain. Most of the body's tissues then switch from...
Palar was answered by Malaysia's ambassador, R. Ramani, who said that "Great Britain is the source of Malaysian independence and prosperity. I do not call that neo-colonialism. And even if it were, by what right does the Republic of Indonesia interfere with the rights of another nation-state...
...Ramani, Malaysian Ambassador to the U.N., and L.N. Palar, former Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S., will discuss the conflict between their two countries at 8 p.m. tonight at 2 Divinity...