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Lee Kuan Yew

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Lee Kuan Yew (1923- )

Singaporean politician, prime minister 1959-90. Lee founded the anticommunist Socialist People's Action Party in 1954 and entered the Singapore legislative assembly in 1955. He was elected the country's first prime minister in 1959, and took Singapore out of the Malaysian federation in 1965. He remained in power until his resignation in 1990, and was succeeded by Goh Chok Tong. Until 1992 he held on to the party leadership.
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Similarly, where Lord praises Lee Kuan Yew for reforming Singapore's government from the top down and recruiting an elite whose real purpose was to strengthen the legislative and deliberative parts of government, he criticizes the quasi-monarchical Gaullist model for a paradoxical weakening of the apparently all-powerful presidential state.
Prudence and the Prince by Baumann, Fred E. / The National Interest
Stalin and Hitler were communitarians as are Lee Kuan Yew [then-dictator of the city-state Singapore] and the leaders of Japan and Israel; even, it seems to me, Bill Clinton.
"Community" by coercion: behind the Bush administration's ... by Grigg, William Norman / The New American
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore have been instrumental in providing the intellectual weight and political vision, while Indonesia, in particular, has tended to hold the Association back.
REGIONALISM AND GLOBALISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA by Rigg, Jonathan / Pacific Affairs
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