Word: himalayan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...events in the West, the world has all but forgotten the continuing torment of Tibet, which was first invaded in 1950 by the Communist Chinese army and again two years ago by screaming Red Guards. Those successive onslaughts have transformed the land of Shangri-la into a nightmarish Himalayan hell...
India's 1,300-mile Himalayan frontier with China is one of the world's most unlikely battlegrounds. Monsoon rains flood its approaches in summer, and snows blanket its jagged peaks and passes in winter. All year round, the thin air gnaws at the lungs and vitality of human trespassers in the fastness. Across the forbidding landscape, some 125,000 to 150,000 Chinese troops and more than 300,000 Indian jawans (infantrymen) are positioned in edgy, continuous confrontation...
...Hills. Despite the quiet on the central Himalayan front, India has good reason to believe that Peking is attempting an end run on India's defenses in the Naga Hills at the eastern end of the border. The Naga tribesmen who live there have been demanding their own nation for 21 years and are thus receptive to arms, aid and instruction in guerrilla warfare. Mao Tse-tung, true to his own policy of supporting "wars of national liberation," has lately taken to supplying the arts and tools of subversion to the Nagas...
Born. To Hope Cooke, 27, Manhattan-born socialite who left the U.S. five years ago to become Queen of the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, and King Palden Thondup Namgyal, 44: their second child, first daughter (the King has three children by his first wife, who died in 1957); in Calcutta...
Chinese troops still rumble along the Himalayan frontier, and occasional Pakistanis still talk of another round over disputed Kashmir. But for all that border belligerence, India faces a far more dangerous internal enemy. Famine is a perennial threat to the country's swiftly expanding population. This year only a record harvest augmented by huge shipments of American grain prevented mass starvation. But former Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam sees signs of hope. His country's agricultural skills are improving, he told the World Food Crisis Committee in Washington last week, and there is a real chance that...