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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1981,
Life is so happy with
the oil-rich Sultan
NEGOTIATIONS are shortly to
begin on the future of three South-East Asian countries: the colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo and the British-protected Sultanate of Brunei. Tungku Ab- dul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaya, wants them-and Singa- pore in his proposed new State of Malaysia.
The British Government ap- proves of Malaysia in principle. Already agreement has been reached about the terms on which Britain can keep her base in Singapore. The next stage is the incorporation of the three Born- ean territories.
Sarawak and North Borneo arr primitive countries, where are still paddled by Cannes bead-hunting natives. They have everything to gain by jorning with Malaya.
Brunel, on the other hand,
is one of the most prosperous State in the world. Its mer- ger with Malaya is bound to lead to the most delicate po- literal fight
rope-walking in the next few months.
A smuli country of aboul the size of Norfolk, with a population of 50,000 (less than Norwich's), Brunei Is jammed insignificantly be Tween Sarawak and North Bot
i tttu.
In 1846 an agreement pro- vided that
"peace, friend ship, and good understand- ing shal subsist for ever Her Majesty the
between
Queen of Great Britain and the Sultan of Brunei and thei respective heirs and success- ure. Forty years later Brunei Decame a Protectorate.
.
STRUCK OIL
It was not, however, con- sidered of very much import- ance by anyone in the West. Until, Just over 30 years ago, they struck ofl.
Today Brunel is the second largest oil produccy in the Commonwealth. About three- quarters of its revenue of £17,000,000 A year
BRISTOL CREAM
a full-bodied, sweet; & fenuty therry blended from wogen her have been maturing for many year In even more debcious slightly chilled.
BRISTOL MILK
ja sweet too. It has a glorious golden colour to match ita fult rich favour. Very suitable fos parties.
BRISTOL DRY
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⚫ special blend of^fine old beries, Dry with a delicious fulinën. Half so hour's sailfing will bring out is distinctive froh quality. It in the perfect aperi
THE DIRECTORS' BIN
a superb post rich in colour, rich
in Bavour. As been blended for
are old wiog, and deserves to be brought out on inicial occasions.
HUNTING ÞORT
fin excellent blend of choice wine.
Drind it after a meal at midday, 'with plain biscuin. Now the price of thin fine peas —poly
Comes
by ALAN
WATKINS
CHINA
from the Shell Company. Its annual surplus is £10,000,000. Imports are
covered more thau three times by exports.
ONE WIFE
Yet the sultan, the 44. year-old Sir Omar Ali Saifud- din, is far removed from the all sheiks of the Middle East (or of Texas)
Though as a Moslem he is entitled to several wives, he has taken only one. He lives frugally. He makes a dis- Unction between revenue that is his and revenue that is due to the State (his per sonal allowance is £50,000 a year).
Certainly he is an autocrat; Bul a highly benevolent one. Two years ago he agreed to
written Constitution under which he surrendered much of his power to executive and legislative councils.
He does not maintain
a
navy, army. or air force. Advised by а Briush Resi- dent, he uses Brunei's colossal income to finance non-con-
心
HARTER
BRISTOLS
BRUNEI
MALAYA
*BORNER
tributory pensions for widows and the disabled, te make 30-year loats to house pur- chasers, to build badly need- ed schools.
Brunei Town, which was occupied by the Japanese during the war and shattered by Allied bombing, has been largely rebuilt. Modern build- ings are going up on the dry land surrounding the houses on stilts. The whole country Is a Welfare State in a set- ting by Joseph Conrad.
NO DRIVE
The greatest internal prob- lem is the lack of drive Aud embition of the Malays, who make up the majority of
population. the
They
live well by South-East Asian
· standards. Unskilled wages are £ a day--four times as much as in neighbouring territories.
But at the oilfields it is the Indians who drill the wells and the Chinese who run the workshops. The most skilled job the Malays can be persuaded to do is lorry driving
UNPOPULAR
Have York, Mo
'WE'LL KEEP ON GOING BACK'
THE diehard town of McComb, Mississippi, has surrendered to months of Federal pressure to South-desegregate its hus station. Or did it?
there was more trouble over Negroes.
As in the rest of East Asta, the industrious Chinese tend to dominate the
local population. The result highly
is that they unpopular.
are
In Brunel they
are excluded from many of the social benefits. Only a trickle of Chinese is allowed into the country.
One reason why Tungkai Abdul Rahman wants Brunei in his new federation is that its Malays will balance the Chinese from Singapore. Bul Brunet will not stand for a counter-Immigration of Chin- ese. It is sure to insist on
safeguards to keep Brunei predominantly Malay.
That will be one difficulty. The olber, of course, will be over the sharing out of the oil revenues.
THE MONEY
The final decision about joining Malaysia will not be for the sultan alone. Brunei's Constitution of two years ago provides that he must have the executive council's con- sent before federating
with (AL
any other territories. that time a federation of Brunei, Sarawak and North- Borneo alone was on cards.)
After
being
Soon
ESTHER WILLIAMS, 38-year- old swimming film star, has won permission to drop her
served with a we're going back. And we'll Anal Federal Court order, May- keep on going back." of Charles Douglas sald: "All right. We won't fight it,
"The bus station will be desegregated and the police will protect any Negroes who use it" court
Then five Freedom Riders walked up to the Whites Only lunch coffee
counter and asked for
The man behind the counter told them: "You get ul of here."
over
Hot coffee
was Bung them and a mph of 40 white The Screamin' ki
Bu fell upon the things Hero boys and two girls. Coppered in blood they staggered at Of
the building
America's Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy moved
married name-Gare. Her rar-
riage to Ben Gage was dissolved
Federal Bureau of Investigation three years ago and she kept his men into the town.
name. But, she said, it was em-
"A full investigation has been barrassing after a time because
ordered "
Peter Evans
he
said.
"Believe she found people thanchi shr theme, the matter will be vigorous- was slik "married,"
The Bruneians are sure to insist that the money keeps flowing as smoothly
as
ly pursued."
And the five Freedom Riders, their the
stitched Wounds plastered by hospital treatment, said: We expected it. But
-(London Express Service).
Assignment in W8 for 12 thugs...
A STRANGE bitter,
and frightening story was told recently
by a foreign diplomat
in London.
Strange, because it reads like
a paper-back spy story; becauat
it is the sort of thing that, as Action, you would dismiss with
a smile-armed men flown into
By
William Cater
ETIC QUOTE-by Republican po- litician Stuyvesant Wainwright, speaking to a convention # lawyers:
"The ruling class in America today are a shabby lot. Not in terme of their clothing, homes, For physical possessions, but shabby in their public, morality, public responsibility, and tional conduct.
rit
MORE than 1500 people phen-
Vere not getting unclegir Hess, their apartment swibbud »47-9.
Once the putslae température drops below 36 degrees Ally was down to 42 today, apartments puty Under-Secretary of State, at must have more than 8 degrees the Foreten Office.
of heat Maximum prépaka" for The ringing declaration of landlords "ing atomply: the Foreign Office was: £200 he and core gaara Jail. "This is A highly complex
fumului si band
matter and is now being Investi-
gated"
AMERICANS Teatroon, he
No such modesty attended the Egyptian now in the able watch BJL. len invaded mews flat. To a repor- Dr K 'W' Fitzwilliam, Mek:(Igle-
A man in the heart of Lon- from a window: "I have diplo-
And he hadn't to hell."
Frightening
.
ter who knocked, he screamed phone Company space oljef, says
the papantanigatione Britain; whispered orders in don, his hand on the phone to matic immunity, Damn you. Go Tellator to be launched next
#
year will be used to tramit foreign tongue as men creep
in Scotland Yard
| European TV Labown to UIS, TB- darkness to rald a Kensington got a chance..... Bat.
The men marched him back
ceivers by lézt 1000. Frightening because respon- to the Consulate. sible men declare
There that it
he was taken before
MY DOCTOR'S surgery is be- did happen; here, in England, Colonel All Khashaba, the Con-
Diplomatie immunity. Theginning to look like * Cape where the peaceable bobby sul-General and, he says, told he same thick cloak that protects a Canaveral control room-dials, stalks his beal and men expect was being evicted.
foreign diplomatic underling switches, flashing lights control to sleep sound and safe.
Now
Syrians the
from getting a parking ticket panels. And above all bitter, equivocally that this property! elso
from which the caretaker
"I have to employ a techni prevents the police making because it hints at the scorn in which British law is held by
was investigations on this diplomacian to work all these electronic thrown cut by the Egyptians, ic Tom Tiddler's Ground.
gadgets," he told me.
say Lik
Ad Research Instit
that over 1,000
men who count themselves im- and the main Consulate budding And perhaps most frighten- Dr Mark Blumberg, of Star mune from it- diplomatically occupied by Egypt, belong to ing of all, the Commons was told immune And bitter again, be- Syria-they produce deeds issued recently that there are now some cause of the slow, maundering by the Land Registry
6,400 peigir in London staining response of the British Foreign These documents were shown such privilege.
to Sir Roger Stevens, the de-
Office.
Omelette
The people involved are Egyptians and Syrians, whose countries, you remember, linked to form the United Arab Re- públic until Syria decided she had had enough and quit, leav- ing Egypt, united with nobody and
Colonel Nasser ver
very angry. When Мазветв takeover bid took place, the Egyptian Em- bassy in Mayfair and the Syrlän Consulate in Kensington Palace Gardens, and the Syrian diplo. mats' dels in
in, the news nearby all became United Arab
Republic offices.
But when the omelette was unscrambled, the Egyptians hung on in the consulate bulld ing, leaving the Sydang with only the news at
The Eyptians, it now seems, were not satished; they wanted these flats, too
Daggers
Did they, like diplomats
devices are now bring TAS. doctors
phdon