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- ‘wrote off a $306,271 loss that
“(UPI),
ie Acknowledging for the first
S| time that he is a millionaire,
ne President Carter is Paying

year as his share in the

was $28, 065.

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according to
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Two decades turned Singapore —

into a

By CHARLES BERNARD
SINGAPORE (UPI) When
Lee Kuan Yew took over as .

Prime Minister of Singapore:

June 3, 1959, he was 36 years

old; the youngest Political
leader in Asia.

' Twenty years later he is
‘the longest-ruling. chief of
state in a region known for
—political—apheavals—and—has
transformed the 240 square
mile island from a. sleepy
‘British Colonial backwater
into a modern and wealthy
nation.

Lee’s almost Puritanical

and incorruptible rule has .

chased the Communists out
‘of: government and indus
and has given Singapore's
2.3. million people the
highest standard of living in
- Asia.

Japan has a Y higher per
capita income, but
‘Singaporeans enjoy a much
lower . cost. of living and
probably more amenities.
Along the way, Lee has
stepped hard on his op-
ponents, some of them still
languishing in prison.

International critics say he
has weakened democracy
with his sometimes ruthless
suppression of dissent.

Lee’s answer has been to
build a nation which has
kept abreast of the
reasonable , expectations of
its people) sometimes in-

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family peanut warehouse -
‘and farmland.. The 18 1978. 8 Joss

peanut waiehouse farmland
and home.
showed

. The ; retura

_Carter’s ‘major ‘sources of

$12, 110, for a party” + and”
receptions: for the staff; and
in. ‘miscellaneaous. .

$271.

office expenses. This means
that. of his $50,000. -.in:

The joint ‘tax return filed
[by him and his wife showed
that Carter earned $267, 195°

only $50,856, because he

| fringing

‘bring down

: "Promising futures.”

- Although Carter was
consistently referred to as a
millionaire during his _1975-

income were $250,000 in
salary as. President, -$20,719
from royaltiés on his book
“Why not the best?"’; $13,¢ 440.

- 76 presidential campaign, his ©

new financial disclosure
statement of assets and
liabilities showed his -net
worth grew from $795,357 in
1977 to $1,005,910 at the-end
of 1978, largely because of
the increased value of his

mode

on “personal
freedoms he feels could

‘structure..

. AS a result, Singapore has
a booming economy with an
unemployment ‘rate of less
than 3.5 per cent, the most
stable government in Asia
and among the most

the. whole

in interest ‘income; and
$11,566 in dividents from
Charles Kirbo as Trustee of
the family holdings.

Carter claimed business.

" expensts of $13,165 - $519.

for meals; $264 for. gifts,

movements reached its peak

-in 1963 when he used an
internal-security act to jail
more than 100 leftists.

Not all his opponents have
been communists. Lee has.
acted . just .
against those who resisted
compulsory acquisition of

. their land to make ‘way for.

100% CONTROL

It also bas the cleanest and

- . greenest streets in Asia, the

most orderly. traffic, the
lowest -birth rate, perhaps -
the. best low-cost public
housing program, universal
education and practically no
racial or religious strife.

Four years after in-
dependence, Singapore
joined the newly formed
Federation of Malaysia as
one of its 14 states. Two
years later, Singapore ‘split
amicably with Malaysia and
became an _ independent
nation, leaving Lee free to
sail an independent course.

Today, Lee’s Peoples
Action Party is the ail-
powerful ruler of the

political scene, having won
five general elections since

' 1959. His party has held 100

percent control of the 69-
seat parliament since 1968.

His campaign against
Communists in government,
unions and student

as ruthlessly.

_investigator.. is

An ‘independent | ‘federal fair market ket price. Sone

checking _ _ - —

presidential expense money.
Carter Kepti: ‘more than
$36,000.

According. to his is financial
disclosure report filed with

.the Office of Government

Ethics, -Carter’s. Farms Inc.
of which the President owns
92 per cent, made loans in
1978 of more than $250,000
to the family’s peanut

‘state-- ata price

Chinese, the most polite
people in Asia to visitors and
to each other.

Singaporeans, traditional-
ly clannish, are told

government employees will —

make or lose promotion
points breed on
_ courtesy rating.

their .

high-rise housing” or in-
dustrial parks.

Those who promoted
racial and religious ties over
Lee’s equity-for-all policies
have been silenced.

_A good example of Lee's:

philosophy is the Population |

Control Act, based on a
continuing and’ well-
publicized campaign that
“two is enough.”

~. Couples with no more than

two children are granted tax
exemptions and _ other

. Subsidies, while those with

three or more find child-
‘rearing an expensive
proposition in every way the
government can make it.

Public housing apart-
ments, in which 65 percent
of Singaporeans now live,
are deliberately designed for
small families.

COURTESY
DRIVE

Lee's latest campaign is
for courtesy and he hopes to
make Singaporeans, 76
percent of them ethnic

Singapore’s hotels, hosts

to 2 million visitors in 1978,
were the first in the private
sector to join the campaign,
telling their workers to smile
even when tips are small.

““At 56, Lee, a Cambridge-
trained lawyer and debater,
has lost some of the fire that
won him a reputation as a
gut-issue, no-holds-barred

- political battler.

Lee now rarely shows
himself in public and has not

_held a news conference in

years, but he appears in-
frequently on television to
launch a campaign or an-
nounce a change in national
policy.

Newspapers and other
publications which have
strongly criticized him have
been effectively silenced by
requiring their yearly
government licensing.

Lee is almost two years
over the normal retirement

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National Bank of showee to"

But a UPI survey. of the: .

_ Carter’. family- holdings -

presidental campaign: showed that if the pednut

house .and ‘the some

The listed value of Carter's eels ° f fai aed eee
peanuts warehouse and 2:000 acres of farmland

farmland increased - from
$557,717 in 1977 to $784, 345
in 1978, and his residence
from $54, 090° to $89,400.

sold in the open market, the
family would be worth about
$5 million

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- age in Singapore, but any ‘past resulted in that can-
“fading
prominence. § -

. public discussion of a didate

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