Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along some of the world's tallest mountains in central Kashmir. Most came on foot, some by yak, the more affluent by treacherous day-long Jeep or bus rides. Their destination: Leh, a remote stronghold of the Tibetan culture that had been selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled God-King, for a rare spiritual event...
Aceves, now 41 and as of this year a U.S. citizen, devotes nearly all his time to pressing Washington bureaucrats and private companies on behalf of the Spanish-speaking owners of 200 businesses who belong to the Latin American Manufacturers Association. Since Aceves founded LAMA 18 months ago as a militant means of nailing down more contract work, he has captured $8 million in business for members, mostly from non-Latin companies. His current goal is to secure a bigger chunk of the $5 billion Alaskan pipeline project for LAMA'S members. He also plans to expand LAMA...
...opponents of the stiff new levies complained that the indirect taxes soaked the poor. Communist Labor Leader Luciano Lama protested that "the measures are not equitably distributed and the utilization of funds so unjustly collected does not in any way assure investments and social services." Lama warned that the regional work stoppages, along with strikes in services, were not "bonfires of straw that would go out in a few minutes." Labor leaders, for the most part, are willing to wait until autumn to let the government decrees take corrective effect. But they are being pressed by militant workers who resent...
...auspicious moment decreed by the astrologers, the King draped the royal five-colored scarf of Bhutan's Kings over his shoulders in the presence of the country's chief lama, the Jey Khempo. No other hands than theirs are ever allowed to touch the sacred silk. In an earlier ceremony, the King had already been given the Bhutanese crown, a silver-and-silk hat embroidered with three skulls and topped by the head of a raven, which is supposed to protect him from harm throughout his reign...
...print before or were generally known: the agency's loan of B-26 bombers and CIA pilots for the uprising against Indonesian President Sukarno in the late 1950s, the drifting of balloons laden with propaganda over mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, the training of the Dalai Lama's mountaineer troops when they were driven out of Tibet in 1959 by the Chinese Communists. But often the book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that had been going on in CIA headquarters...