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Married. The Sultan of Pahang, 48; and Habsah Binte Lebai Mat, 22, amusement-park dancing girl; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The sports-loving Sultan, bound by Moslem law which limits a man to only four wives at a time, divorced wife No. 4 before marrying pretty Habsah...
Next day, armed with another souvenir (a Malayan parang, a vicious native knife which a British sergeant had given him), the traveler from Illinois logged a misadventure. Flying over the jungle near Kuala Lumpur, his helicopter caught fire and made a forced landing in a paddyfield. Stepping out unharmed into knee-deep mud, Stevenson cracked: "Where is my parang? I want to kill a bandit." At week's end, Stevenson was ready to take off for Bangkok, with stops at Rangoon, New Delhi and Karachi before heading on to the Middle East...
...feet over the edge of a death ditch. Author Braddon still doesn't know. Instead, his captors yoked him to eight fellow-Aussies, prodded the group with bayonets and jeers of "Georgey Six, number ten! Tojo, number one!" and marched them off to Pudu, a prison camp in Kuala Lumpur. On the way, the sons of the Rising Sun treated Braddon to some grisly samples of the new order. At one point, his guards collared a senile old Chinese and lit a match to his hair. As the old man screamed, they handed him a can of scalding water...
...races. They seldom go to dinner parties or cocktail parties. And they do not play golf." Even as he spoke, the Perak Derby was being run on the track at Ipoh, tin-mining capital of the worst-terrorized state in the Federation, and golf balls were zinging around Kuala Lumpur course...
...British colonials began to surrender too. In Kuala Lumpur, the posh Lake Club had refused admission to the Sultan of Selangor on the grounds of his color. Said Templer, in cold fury: "For the security forces of this country, there is no such thing as a color bar . . . British boys, Rhodesians, sturdy Gurkhas, Africans and Fijiians . . . are all risking their lives side by side with Malays, Chinese and Indians . . . These men see their real enemy-Communism. They also see their real friends, and know that the things they are fighting for transcend any differences there might be of skin...