ABSTRACT
Tun Abdul Rahman Yakub was chief minister of Malaysia's north Bornean state of Sarawak from July 1970 until March 1981. In April 1981 he assumed the office of state governor, which he gave up in 1985 out of frustration with the political constraints of his constitutional role. Tun Yakub was born on 3 January 1928 in Bintulu, Sarawak. He was educated at the University of Southampton in England and went to qualify as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London in 1959. Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the official title of Malaysia's reigning constitutional monarch. Monarchy in Malaysia has long enjoyed a special political standing, in part because of its symbolic role in the emergence of Malay nationalism during the Malayan Union Proposal crisis from 1946. Young Turks is the name given to a group of regimental and battalion commanders who became influential in Thai politics from the mid1970s and who promoted an abortive coup in April 1981.
