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- <title>
- Sep. 16, 1991: World Notes:Singapore
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- SINGAPORE
- No More Mr. Nice Goh?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Until he retired last November, Lee Kuan Yew was the only
- Prime Minister that Singapore had ever had since gaining
- independence in 1965. In the months since Lee stepped down, Goh
- Chok Tong, his handpicked successor, has been trying to emerge
- from Lee's shadow. In an attempt to establish his own mandate,
- last month he called a snap election two years before he was
- required to do so.
- </p>
- <p> The election, which the Prime Minister saw as a referendum
- on his relatively open style, brought him mixed tidings. His
- People's Action Party received 61% of the popular vote, 2.2%
- lower than the total accumulated by Lee in 1988. The vote was
- less a repudiation of Goh than a plea for a viable opposition
- to the country's ruling party.
- </p>
- <p> While Goh promised to make some modification in his open
- style, he vowed no drastic changes. But he might reform his
- party and bring it back closer to the grass roots. Had Goh been
- less liberal, less open, some analysts contended last week, he
- might have done better at the polls.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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