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...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...
After my three years of wandering, I finally reached Tibet and hoped that there, at last, I would find the answers to all my unspoken questions. But when I arrived in Lhasa and came face-to-face with the Potala, I stopped dead. I couldn't go in, because I knew that when I came out again there would be nowhere left...
...just at UCLA. At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, dogs have been incorporated into rehabilitation treatments for victims of brain and spinal-cord injuries. At the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Sandra Barker brings her own Lhasa apso to relax shock-therapy patients who are visibly trembling before treatment. In Texas, dogs are used to motivate children recovering in burn units and to calm residents in Alzheimer's wards...