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...begun a series of informal meetings with the goal of setting up a "Tinpec," a cartel similar to OPEC, that would attempt to control world supplies and prices of tin. It even wanted to supplant the London futures market with one of its own, in its capital city of Kuala Lumpur. As if to show that the cartel was already working, Malaysia announced this month that it plans to cut its production by 25%, to 45,000 tons, thus driving up the price...
...also found some support among governments in its anger at the Soviets. Delegates from 17 Muslim countries attending a conference on Islam in Kuala Lumpur condemned "the dastardly crime by the Soviet Union against the Afghan people." At the U.N., scores of nations denounced the U.S.S.R. before both the Security Council and the General Assembly (see WORLD...
...where Shaplen has chosen to write, he has done a spectacular job. For the expert on the Vietnam war or the student who has never heard of Kuala Lumpur. A Turning Wheel is required reading. Shaplen's ability to preach without being pretentious and to find the personal thread among the sweep of revolution is extraordinary. If his vision of Asia's future is hesitant, then he has learned more than most writers and journalists
Launched a few weeks ago to coincide with the start of the winter season, the $50 million multination effort, called MONEX (for Monsoon Experiment), is being directed by the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization. At the command post in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, some 70 Americans and Soviets, as well as weather watchers from Asian and other countries, are beginning the first systematic profile of an annual monsoon cycle. Gathering data from an area of some 28 million sq. mi., the scientists have two lofty goals: to explore the origin of monsoon winds so they...
...city's large Chinese community (1,500 legal residents and more than 7,000 free-floating illegals) had a long-established internal drug trade; easy Common Market border rules made Amsterdam the perfect hub for Europe-wide smuggling. In 1971 gangsters from triads (secret societies) in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore began infiltrating Amsterdam's Chinatown, forcing merchants and community leaders to help shield their operations. Ironically, many of the operators were corrupt drug cops purged from the Hong Kong police force...