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Feelers. The Foreign Ministers of the five members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)* will meet in a special session in Kuala Lumpur next week. Among other matters on their agenda is whether and how the organization should expand to include Burma, Cambodia, Laos and the two Viet Nams. South Korean diplomats hint that they will not only accelerate their plodding discussions with Pyongyang on reunification but also put out diplomatic feelers to Moscow and Peking...
...rest of Indochina as well. Paris is questionable as a site because Saigon feels that France is partial to the North Vietnamese; Geneva is out, since Hanoi has bitter memories of the city that stem from the 1954 and 1962 conferences. Among the other possibilities: Copenhagen, Vienna, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or a Swiss city other than Geneva. The North Vietnamese are also eager to discuss the U.S. plan to bankroll a $7.5 billion Viet Nam reconstruction program; it is possible that the program will involve a Kissinger visit to Hanoi...
...months the Chinese government has frequently expressed its concern over Thai involvement in Cambodia. On January 14, the People's Daily of Peking said that participation by "certain Southeast Asian countries" in the U.S.-backed aid consortium for Cambodia contradicted their support for Southeast Asian neutralization as expressed at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November...
Atop 5,820-ft. Mount Ulu Kali, the tropic air turns chill at night and lights from the distant capital of Kuala Lumpur glitter like diamonds. But visitors to the new 200-room Genting Highlands Hotel could hardly care less about the breathtaking view. Since the resort opened in May, thousands of eager customers have driven up a misty, winding mountain road for a headier kind of excitement-gambling in Malaysia's first legalized casino...
Respectability. At almost any hour of the day there is steady action at the blackjack, baccarat, roulette and craps tables, many of them run by female dealers or croupiers. The players are affluent businessmen from Kuala Lumpur and nearby Singapore, accompanied by wives or mistresses in silk pantsuits. Collectively, they wager an estimated $100,000 every 24 hours. On a visit last month, the Sultan of Selangor put a royal stamp of respectability on the new venture by winning $133 at roulette...