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...Tibet report that Red China has now dropped even the pretense that Communist rule in Tibet has the approval of the Panchen Lama. First employed by the Chinese as a puppet against his traditional rival, the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama is now a prisoner in Suthilinga palace in Lhasa, suspected of organizing the underground. Meanwhile, Tibetans estimate that the Chinese have carried off $420 million worth of monastery valuables, turning many a wrecked temple into a dance hall or military head quarters...
...their massive attempt to convert Tibet into a Chinese colony, the Communists have impressed 35,000 Tibetans, including many monks, to work as slave laborers building a new 1,500-mile railroad from China's Tsinghai province to Lhasa. Even with the present poor communications, Chinese settlers are already being moved in to take over Tibetan lands, and Tibetans are shipped away to points unknown to change the racial complexion of the people. But other thousands have fled into the mountains, where Chinese planes last week were powerless to strafe them out. Said one Tibetan traveler: "The Chinese will...
...reluctantly voted a mild, almost anemic resolution condemning--no, not even condemning--expressing "grave concern" over "reported" repressions in Tibet. The Communist Chinese, chastened by this stinging rebuke, will no doubt immediately withdraw their forces, and the bespectacled Dalai Lama will soon make a triumphal re-entry into Lhasa, with Life magazine on the scene to cover the event with the same breathless fervor it devoted to his "miraculous escape...
...carefully skirted Communist Chinese troops fighting on India's border, a do-or-die stand by Khamba tribesmen in western Tibet. Even when the opportunity for independent sightseeing presented itself, the newsmen turned away; no one interviewed India's Consul General Shiv Lai Chhiber, spotted in a Lhasa rug shop, because, as one correspondent explained: "Our main interest was in social reforms...
Back in Peking with full notebooks, the tunnel-visioned correspondents ticked off what they saw. Lhasa-where 15,000 died in the bloody fighting-was "quite normal." Everywhere, the people smiled on their oppressors-a piece of information the reporters picked up during lunch in Shigatse with Mao's puppet Panchen Lama. Then, suntanned and refreshed by their exercise, the correspondents trotted back to their cages...