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...Singapore's Red-leaning, left-wing extremists (mostly Chinese), whose rising influence threatens the regime of moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and could stall Singapore's slow but steady move from British colonial status toward full independence. Fearful of chaos ahead, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman now shares Lee's view that Singapore's Communists can be stopped only if the two territories join forces...
Conferring in London last week, Abdul Rahman formally proposed the merger to the British, who hastily put their stamp of approval on the sensible plan in exchange for a promise that the Royal Navy would enjoy continued use of its strategic Singapore base. Next question: the willingness of three other British-run territories in the area-Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo-to join the new political grouping. If they agree, federation could be a fact within two years...
...said India's Nehru. "No amount of argument that it was done in self-defense would wash off the wrong." Brazil's President João Goulart protested "against all forms of international coercion, including the threatened atomic destruction of humanity." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman called the Soviet tests "deplorable," said that they showed "utter contempt and disregard for world opinion...
...neighboring autonomous state of Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew struggles to keep tenuous control over a noisy leftist opposition. To reinforce his moderates and keep Singapore out of the hands of the leftists, Lee has long sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei...
...government is moving even faster in the countryside. Hopeful that higher-yield rubber trees will enable Malayan rubber to compete with synthetics in the years ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak, 39, is trying to get 50,000 more acres a year under cultivation. To work the land, he is resettling farmers in self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor...