Word: malaysian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward Kennedy (D-MA): In Judge Reinhold's America there is no room for handicapped, lesbian chicano construction workers. There's no room for underprivileged Malaysian immigrants with torn rotator cuffs. There's no room for Slavs with corns on their feet. There's no room...
Last-minute appeals for clemency for the two Australians, which were sent to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the human rights organiza- tion Amnesty International, proved unsuccessful. Hawke subsequently condemned the hangings as "barbaric." In response to the argument that no one has the right to take another's life, Mahathir replied, "You should tell that to the drug traffickers...
...fair's theme is transportation, and visitors will be able to gaze at exhibits ranging from a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to a Japanese high- speed passenger train that can travel more than 250 m.p.h. Moored in the harbor are dozens of boats and ships, including a Malaysian canoe and a Portuguese fishing boat. The Chinese pavilion features stones from the Great Wall and a 2,000-year-old bronze chariot...
...have stirred some resentment in several Asian countries. Says Alunan Glang, a Filipino historian: "If we don't watch out, we Filipinos will no longer be known as 'little brown Americans,' but as 'little brown Japanese,' and God knows which is the lesser evil." In a speech last August, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed accused the Japanese of practicing "economic colonialism...
...deeper than its regulations. The Japanese are picky and often do not trust the quality of American products, much less Asian imports. Says Eric Hayden, an economist and a director of the Bank of America in Tokyo: "The Japanese are not going to take South Korean machine tools or Malaysian cars or Indonesian airplanes. Japan doesn't import that kind of stuff. The Japanese produce it, and better than any of these countries...