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<text id=90TT2846>
<title>
Oct. 29, 1990: Saying Goodbye To Mr. Lee
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PRESS, Page 91
Saying Goodbye to Mr. Lee
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<body>
<p>Dow Jones bails out of a long-running feud in Singapore
</p>
<p> "We'd like to express our regret," declared the editorial
in last week's Wall Street Journal worldwide, "that we are
suspending our remaining circulation in the Republic of
Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the
bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had
already been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A
new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be
licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments
makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is
for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the
editorial continued. "We cannot accept the implicit bargain."
With that, the newspaper announced that it would no longer sell
any copies in Singapore.
</p>
<p> The move leaves Singapore (pop. 2.7 million), one of the
Pacific Rim's most dynamic centers, as that rarity, a
non-Communist country without some edition of the far-flung
financial newspaper (worldwide circ. more than 2 million). The
Journal's decision also marks the latest step in a long-running
feud between the island republic and foreign-based publications
in general about the government's right to reply to coverage.
The circulation of the Asian Wall Street Journal was cut in
1987, when the paper refused to print in full a lengthy
government letter about an article on a proposed new stock
exchange. Another Dow Jones & Co. publication, the Hong
Kong-based weekly Far Eastern Economic Review, stopped
Singapore distribution in 1988 after its circulation was
crimped from 10,000 to 500.
</p>
<p> TIME too has had its problems. The magazine's circulation
was cut from nearly 19,000 to 2,000 for seven months in 1987,
after it failed to print promptly a government letter citing
errors in a story about an opposition leader. The circulation
of Asiaweek, a regional weekly owned by Time Warner, was cut
from 11,000 copies to 500 in 1987 for similar reasons, then
recently raised to 7,500.
</p>
<p> Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Cambridge law graduate who
has run the former British colony since independence in 1965,
makes no secret of his distrust of Western media and their
influence. In a speech last week, Lee argued that TV news
broadcasts, with their dramatic reports on protests in Korea
and the Philippines, led to last year's Beijing student
massacre. The broadcasts, he alleged, misled China's students
into thinking they too could force speedy government change. As
for his own government, Lee said, it "can and will insist on no
foreign interference in the domestic politics of Singapore."
</p>
<p>By Jay Branegan/Hong Kong. With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/New
York.
</p>
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