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<text id=91TT2022>
<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>
</body></article>
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