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...religious leader of thousands of monasteries throughout India, Bhutan, Nepal, and, more recently, of meditation centers in the West, the Karmapa is the 16th incarnation in an unbroken lineage of spiritual teachers dating from the 12th century...
...child the Karmapa learned the religious traditions of his predecessors and, in 1958, anticipating tension on the China-Tibetan border, he fled to India through Bhutan with a large group of monks, carrying religious texts and ceremonial objects
Some 18 cautious states, including India, Algeria and Syria, abstained, and an eclectic group of twelve states did not vote at all. Noting that these included Bhutan, Rumania and South Africa, the New York Times caustically dubbed the nonvoters as "The Confused, the Brave and the Outcast." (One of these last was the Sudan, which was $65,000 behind in its U.N. dues and could raise only $40,000 before the count began, thus failing to qualify to vote...
...Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving co-founder of the nonaligned movement - to Communist fellow travelers like Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to such obscure eminences as Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. Castro and his aides orchestrated the arrival of celebrities well: one of the few discordant notes was struck by a brass band that mistakenly played the Egyptian national anthem as Castro greeted Iraq's President Saddam Hussein, one of Egypt's bitterest...
...father, Mahendra. The correspondent arrived for that occasion aboard a rickety DC-3 that "slithered low over the Himalayan foothills, searching for the gap in the mountains through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings of Bhutan and Sikkim. Over the years, the Shangri-la quality of the mountain kingdoms has been diminished by the encroachment of Western civilization. "The one-room thatch shack that was the airport building at Katmandu's Gauchar Airport is long gone," Shepherd reports, "and the red brick complex that replaced...