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...Richard S. Gordon and Abdul Malik, said that racism caused their dismissal...
Died. Tun Abdul Razak, 53, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1970 who deftly laid down a nonalignment policy for his country and closely tended homegrown economic problems; of leukemia; in London...
...political opposition, as has Bhutto's own highhanded tactics in putting them down. When his provincial cabinet minister for the Northwest Frontier province was murdered last February, Bhutto banned the National Awami Party-the principal party in the province-and arrested 300 of its leaders, including Khan Abdul Wali Khan, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. Most are still in jail. The battle grew more heated when security forces last month threw the opposition members out of the National Assembly, following a quarrel over passage of a constitutional amendment...
Soon after the takeover, they tossed a three-page typewritten memo out of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless seven cronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance." Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines...
Slow Progress. Meanwhile, a drumfire of anger punctuated the disengagement discussion. Egypt unexpectedly announced that it would not, as anticipated, automatically extend a mandate for United Nations peacekeeping forces in Sinai in view of the slow progress toward peace. War Minister Mohammed Abdul Ghani Gamassy issued an order of the day to his army: "Stand fully ready to complete the assignment which you carried out in one stage on the sixth of October...