Word: bhutan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, Dev Prasad Kumar, special representative of the Statesman, New Delhi and Calcutta, "will concentrate his study in international affairs on the history and politics of India and plans to make a comprehensive study of the development of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan...
...months ahead, he will hardly take it easy. In the works are plans to visit Ceylon and Bhutan, a possible trip to Washington and, perhaps later, a journey to Moscow, which was originally planned for this month. Also ahead is another round of talks on the Kashmir problem with the Pakistanis. Looming over everything is the need to cope with India's growing food problem. Last week with Shastri up and around again, the government decreed a comprehensive system of price controls for wheat and rice. Then it launched a series of police raids on grain speculators, turning...
Died. Jigme P. Dorji, 45, Premier since 1955 of Bhutan, mote-size (18,000 sq. mi.) Indian buffer state in the Himalayas, who with his brother-in-law, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, brought Bhutan boldly into the 20th century by abolishing slavery and polyandry, joining the Colombo Plan, building hospitals and the first road to the outside world; by an unknown assassin's bullet, as he sat in a resthouse at the Indian border post of Phunchholing...
...Donor nations: the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan. Recipients: Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Lacs, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, South Viet Nam, Thailand...
Galbraith also found himself involved in many lesser offshoots of the war. When the government of Bhutan wanted advice on whether or not it should remain neutral, whose evaluation could be more sage than that of the representative of the U.S.A.? Who better than the U.S. ambassador to decide if slightly rusty ammunition which had just arrived from Europe was safe...