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...that the Chinese provided for the trip, the majesty and mystery of the Himalayas extend into snowcapped infinity. We glided over the headwaters of the great Mekong and Salween rivers, then followed the Tsangpo River, which is the source for the Brahmaputra in India. Near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the mountains rise brown, harsh and uninhabited from a narrow valley that grudgingly spreads to a width of a mile at the airfield where we touched down...
...Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating his barking skills. The picture's title character, German shepherd Won Ton Ton, arrived by limo, sporting...
Died. Charles Suydam Cutting, 83, naturalist and explorer, who in 1935 led an expedition to Tibet's remote, Shangri-La city of Lhasa; of a cerebral hemorrhage; on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass. In 1925, Cutting set out for Central Asia on the first of many expeditions in search of rare animal species. A decade later he made the most famous of all his journeys when, after five years of plying the Dalai Lama with gifts, he was invited to visit and crossed the Himalayas to the nearly inaccessible 7th century city of Lhasa...
...Senator's awe was shared by nearly everyone else the Nixons feted during three nights of receptions for Congressmen and their wives last week. Invited into the family rooms-which until a few years ago were almost as private as the inner sanctum of the Winter Palace in Lhasa-most visitors boggled. A few noted subtle changes. A portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt has been replaced by one of Dwight Eisenhower; Woodrow Wilson, a hero of the President (though a Democrat), has succeeded Lyndon Johnson. "All those damn Indians," as one rubbernecker inelegantly described George Catlin's incomparable frontier...
...warring among themselves and with the military, though last week Peking claimed that the Maoists were in full control of all China's provinces, including Tibet. Earlier, the longtime army commander in Tibet was replaced, and battles among the Chinese occupiers were reported to be raging sporadically in Lhasa. Essential services, including transportation, communications and food shipments, have broken down. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Tibetans are issuing anti-Chinese leaflets. Some bolder Tibetans have been seen throwing stones at Chinese civilians and turning wall poster Mao portraits upside down. The Red Guards have sacked virtually...