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...confines of the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel complex and made a game try at Balinese dancing, her husband met with Indonesian President Suharto and the foreign ministers of the six members of the 19-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. Early in his speech, Reagan told an anecdote about two men who are running away from a bear they encountered in a forest. When one man stops to put on his running shoes, the other asks incredulously, "You don't think that by putting on those shoes, you're going...
FOOTNOTE: *Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines...
...capitalist tools go, Malcolm Forbes, 65, cuts a wide swath. The millionaire chairman and editor in chief of Forbes magazine last week embarked on an 18-day swing through Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei for the sheer swell of it. Traveling with an entourage of 20 in his private Boeing 727 (dubbed Capitalist Tool, after the magazine's slogan), Forbes made his first stop at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. He brought along an $80,000, 90- ft.-tall, elephant-shaped balloon to entertain the royal family, but high winds curtailed the flight. Forbes is not bothered by little deflations...
Military supplies and funding for this unlikely coalition of resistance groups has come largely from China and from a pro-Western organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. Pressure on the Administration to provide U.S. aid has been spearheaded by Congressman Stephen Solarz, a New York Democrat. A strong foe of funding the contras in Nicaragua, Solarz considers the two non-Communist resistance groups in Kampuchea the real "freedom fighters." He helped persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee to recommend $5 million in aid to those groups...
...foreign ministers of six non- Communist Asian nations last week issued an unprecedented appeal for "support and assistance to the Kampuchean people" in the "military struggle" to oust their country's Vietnamese occupiers. To the representatives of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines), backing for Kampuchea these days means weapons. Comparing the Kampucheans with Afghan freedom fighters, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila declared, "How do you expect these Kampucheans to survive if they have nothing? They can't fight with their bare hands...