Word: lhasa
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...kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their parents hadn't taught them." Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch partner Paul Kronenberg, a development aid worker she met in 1997 in a hostel in Lhasa (the capital of the remote Chinese autonomous region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May 1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and bureaucracy," recalls...
...RELEASED. PHUNTSONG NYIDRON, 37, last of a group of 14 Tibetan "singing nuns" who attracted worldwide attention after recordings of them singing proindependence songs were smuggled out of a Chinese prison; in Lhasa, Tibet. Nyidron was jailed in 1989 for "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement" after participating with other nuns in a public protest...
...French takes us through Tibet, he details the troubled history of the nation, the dignity of its religion, the squabbles among sects and the horrors of China's invasion and the Cultural Revolution. One woman recalls being beguiled, as a child, into participating in the assault on Lhasa's Jokhang Temple by a group of Red Guards. She weeps as she describes smashing idols and destroying scriptures. An old man recounts his band of warriors' futile attempt at defending their homeland in 1955. He was jailed; his family, because of its prominence in the old feudal system, was reclassified...
...delegation included the Dalai Lama's representatives in the U.S. and Europe, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen. The purpose of the high-level visit was not revealed but U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said: "We do see the trip of Lodi Gyari to Beijing and then to Lhasa [Tibet's capital] as a positive development." In 1950, China took control of Tibet, a move it calls a "peaceful liberation" and the Dalai Lama terms an invasion. After an anti-Chinese uprising failed in 1959, the Dalai Lama fled to India. U.S. Florida Follies Nearly two years after Florida...
...alleged involvement in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. RELEASED. TANAK JIGME SANGPO, 76, Tibetan teacher who spent the past 19 years in jail on charges of "counterrevolutionary incitement" for condemning the Chinese occupation of his homeland, on medical parole; from Drapchi Prison in Lhasa. RELEASED. PETA THORNYCROFT, 57, correspondent for Britain's Daily Telegraph who was detained by authorities in Zimbabwe under a security act for publishing false information; by order of a high court in Harare. RESIGNED. RICK BELLUZZO, president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corp., after serving little more than a year...