Cabled Briefs

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 13

Cabled Briefs

Boeing Expansion The Boeing Aircraft Company of America, whose jumbo jet aircraft have already carried more than one million passengers, has chosen Singapore as its headquarters for South-East Asia. It will open an office there in September to co-ordinate activities and to provide services in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand. Burma and Pakistan.—Singapore, July 17. Malaysian Denial Malaysia will not join any collective security arrangement to deal with the IndoChina conflict, the Deputy Prime Minister (Tun Abdul Razak) said last night, rejecting a suggestion that Malaysia would join a proposed military alliance with Thailand, South Vietnam and Cambodia. The Cambodian Prime Minister (General Lon Nol) will discuss the proposal with his Thai counterpart (Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn) in Bangkok on Wednesday.—Kuala Lumpur, July 17. Peoples' Plunge Tens of thousands of Chinese took to rivers, lakes, ponds and seas in and around China yesterday to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s legendary swim across the Yangtse River in 1966, when he was 72. Peking’s official news agency said in an Eng-lish-language broadcast monitored in Tokyo today that the mass plunge was “led by members of the People’s Liberation Army, who went into the water fully armed.”— Tokyo, July 17.