Word: himalayan
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...appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border question; that meant siding with those who thought that India should press its extremely doubtful claim to Chinese-held Aksai Chin on India's northwest border and a stretch of the Himalayan foothills in the northeast...
...mile-high Nepalese capital of Katmandu has ever forgotten the lavish coronation of bean-shaped King Mahendra in 1956, when the tiny Himalayan country imported 40 taxicabs, 130 Indian waiters, and everything from pastel bathtubs to Coca-Cola. Now the Nepalese are at it again, this time with a well-publicized royal wedding, billed as one of the most lavish Hindu nuptial ceremonies in history...
Class Love. Ancient attitudes have kept caste barriers Himalayan in height. So has the fact that, for all the official pronouncements, the government has done little to help. Over the past 15 years, spending on special economic-aid programs for harijans has totaled only $90 million, a meager 1.5% of all development outlays. Of the 115,000 students currently enrolled in Indian universities, only 2,300 are Untouchables. Scores of laws are on the statute books, but enforcing them is something else...
...Buchwald's first play, Sheep on the Runway, is a cartoon allegory. Flush with military hardware but low on brainpower, a group of bumbling, do-good-ing, fast-talking Americans lead a small, neutral Himalayan nation in Asia into a deadly heap of trouble. The difficulty with themes like this is that a playgoer is not quite sure whether he is experiencing the shock or the drone of recognition. An audience should never know as much as or more about a play than the playwright does...
...VICE-PRESIDENCY Programmed Diplomacy He was the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, and he behaved accordingly. Never venturing beyond protocol, he was one of the few visitors who did not even attempt a peek at the famous erotic sculpture at Hanuman Doka temple. "It's not really his sort of thing," explained a member of his party. At one point, he praised Nepal's unique village-assembly system of government and what it could mean "for the future of India." But that geographic slip aside, Vice President Spiro Agnew...