ACTION UNDER INTERNAL SECURITY ACT

Mr Goh Choon Kang (Braddell Heights): Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I would like to name next Wednesday, that is 25th of May, 1988, on which this motion* be set down in the Order Paper.

*The Motion, standing in the names of Mr Goh Choon Kang and Mr Chng Hee Kok, reads as follows:

"That this House --

(a) supports the firm action of the Government to prevent our country from being subverted whether by Marxists, communists, western powers or other foreign interest groups,

(b) deplores, in view of recent disclosures, all foreign interference, particularly that of some United States' officials, in our domestic affairs,

(c) calls upon the Government to be vigilant to all such groups and stop them from interfering in our domestic affairs, and

(d) endorses the Government's detention, under the Internal Security Act, of the people involved in the attempt to subvert Singapore.".

Mr Deputy Speaker: So be it.