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...stump. Groups of Communist Party workers gathered in Calcutta streets to act out skits on such issues as high prices, high rents and poor public transportation. A candidate in the Punjab campaigned from his jail cell; he was accused of trying to assassinate his opponent. In the Himalayan constituency of Ranikhet, a Congress Party aspirant promised to deal with his district's most urgent problem-a tiger that has so far devoured 20 people...
...matter how remote Himalayan tigers or even Calcutta Communists, Americans have an important stake in this outsize election. During the past 15 years, the U.S. has funneled $2.4 billion in aid into India. Though its interpretation of neutralism is often irritating to the West, India is the world's most populous (438 million) democracy, and could be a major force for freedom in Asia. Or it could merely be a confused and drifting giant, at the mercy of its fiercely aggressive Communist neighbor...
Though he agreed that the presence of the Portuguese in Goa "was an offense to Indian nationalism," Rajagopalachari added that "it was not a greater offense than China's exploits on the Himalayan border. Our nationalism has led us into impatience at the wrong moment, when in the international world there is trouble brewing everywhere, and we have a mission for promoting peace and a special qualification for fulfilling that mission. The moment may have been thought just the time by those who had an eye on the elections, but from the international angle it is the wrong moment...
Like their God-King, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans left their homes to escape brutal Red Chinese repression after the failure of the 1959 revolt. They were brought to Switzerland by ten Swiss calling themselves Friends of Tibet, and including members of a 1953 Himalayan mountain-climbing expedition, Asia scholars, authors and businessmen. The intense, quiet-mannered Tibetan moppets instantly charmed the Swiss with their small, deft hands and disarming smiles. The adults are faring equally well. In Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes...
Making a quieter impression than the jazz-blowing defender of his Buddhist faith, Thailand's King Bhumibol, Somdej Phra Ariyawongsalcottayarn Phra Sangharaja, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, landed in Manhattan last week after junketing austerely across the U.S. Paying typical tourist obeisance to the Himalayan-high Empire State Building, he padded sandal-clad and saffron-robed around the 86th-floor observation platform, noted the artifacts of Western civilization-but few of his flock. "I have seen many people in this country who are interested in Buddhism," commented His Holiness, "but not too many...