Government1 (Malaysia)
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       Sarawak:
         coalition Sarawak National Front composed of the Party Pesaka Bumiputra
         Bersatu (PBB), Datuk Patinggi Amar Haji Abdul TAIB Mahmud; Sarawak United
         People's Party (SUPP), Datuk Amar James WONG Soon Kai; Sarawak National
         Party (SNAP), Datuk Amar James WONG; Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), Datuk
         Leo MOGGIE; major opposition parties are Democratic Action Party (DAP), LIM
         Kit Siang and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), Fadzil NOOR
     Suffrage:
         universal at age 21
     Elections:
       House of Representatives:
         last held 21 October 1990 (next to be held by August 1995); results -
         National Front 52%, other 48%; seats - (180 total) National Front 127, DAP
         20, PAS 7, independents 4, other 22; note - within the National Front, UMNO
         got 71 seats and MCA 18 seats
     Member of:
         APEC, AsDB, ASEAN, C, CCC, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-15, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD,
         ICAO, ICFTU, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT,
         INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, LORCS, NAM, OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO,
         UNIIMOG, UPU, WCL, WHO, WIPO, WMO
     Diplomatic representation:
         Ambassador Abdul MAJID Mohamed; Chancery at 2401 Massachusetts Avenue NW,
         Washington, DC 20008; telephone (202) 328-2700; there are Malaysian
         Consulates General in Los Angeles and New York
       US:
         Ambassador Paul M. CLEVELAND; Embassy at 376 Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala
         Lumpur (mailing address is P. O. Box No. 10035, 50700 Kuala Lumpur);
         telephone [60] (3) 248-9011; FAX [60] (3) 242-2207
     Flag:
         fourteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top) alternating with white
         (bottom); there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a
         yellow crescent and a yellow fourteen-pointed star; the crescent and the
         star are traditional symbols of Islam; the design was based on the flag of
         the US