Word: malaysian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval on the board of directors that put the company under effective control of the Malaysian government and had all the elements of a Graham Greene novel -intrigue, nationalism and more than a pinch of imperial smugness...
More recently, the company bought control of a lackluster elevator company in Britain and an interest in a garbage-truck manufacturer in Belgium. Bywater defended these investments as steps toward creating "a Western technological base" for the company, but most Asians saw them as a flight of Malaysian-earned profits...
That stand drew protests from Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Hussein bin Onn and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Lee specifically criticized "countries like Laos" for their "urge to proselytize" and added that "we cannot tolerate interference in the internal affairs of any member...
...time the itinerary passed through Hong Kong and, for a few, the People's Republic of China, and came to the Indonesian island of Bali, classes were reduced to occasional Malaysian language lessons (in a temple compound within a mud-walled village), though any who requested more specific lessons readily received them...
Daud, editor-in-chief of the Malaysian news agency Bernarma, will be traveling in the United States for 30 days. He is typical of the approximately 1695 foreign visitor the University Marshal hosts every year, the great majority of whom are channeled to Harvard by the State Department as part of its "Leaders' Program...