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...China announced that it had found the world?s highest oil field, 15,000 feet above sea level in the disputed territory. "China would be even less likely to consider relaxing its grip on a Tibet with oil fields," says Dowell. "This is not good news for the Dalai Lama." For most nations, striking oil is counted as a blessing; for Tibetans it may be a curse...
...also said the U.S. president should meet with the Dalai Lama and Chinese dissidents, moves which past commanders-in-chief have been reluctant to make...
...West needed him to be, in order to believe the good guys had won out in the Soviet Union's collapse -- Yeltsin's only agenda is to be running things. "If Buddhism had been fashionable in Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed, Yeltsin would have become Moscow's Dalai Lama," says Zarakhovich. "Democracy was popular, so the former Communist Party leader became a democrat. He's the consummate political animal, at his best when he's fighting -- he's already shown that he's willing to shoot in order to keep his power...
...eulogy of Rozelle in January 1997, Arledge said that a president of a sports division negotiating with Pete Rozelle and the NFL had "about as much clout as the Dalai Lama has dealing with the Chinese army." What he failed to mention was that Rozelle had created the army...
...addition to cleaning the restaurant, Dongshi said they have repainted it red, yellow and green, traditional Tibetan colors. Behind the counter, a framed poster of the Dalai Lama hangs prominently...