Word: mahendra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endless, crowded tea party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through streets swarming with mosquitoes for the swearing-in of the 109 successful candidates in Nepal's first elections for M.P.s...
Enterprising King Mahendra and Prime Minister Koirala are agreed on the need to put their chaotic country to rights. Tawny-skinned and brown-eyed, with a thin face and frame like that of Frank Sinatra, Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate professional father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with...
...China's bullying behavior forced all eyes in its direction. When Nehru last week journeyed to the Nepalese border to dedicate a new dam that is being started on the raging Kosi River, a crowd of 100,000 gathered to hail him and Nepal's youthful King Mahendra, 38. Afterward, the two leaders conferred for several hours. King Mahendra fears Nepal may be the next victim of Red China's aggression, is well aware that on Communist maps his mountain-locked country is shown as Chinese territory. In the desperate hope that Moscow might have a restraining...
...Nepali Congress Party. Communists got only a handful as did the party of Nepal's most colorful politician, anti-American K. I. Singh. Under Nepali Congress Party Leader (and prospective Premier) B. P. Koirala, Nepal will probably keep to the same course it pursued under King Mahendra, who ordered the elections (and will continue to reign as a constitutional monarch). Major difference is that now Nepal's rulers can be confident that they have public approval...
...primitive mountain kingdom of Nepal, crunched between India and China, there are only 250 telephones, most of which connect the palace of 38-year-old King Mahendra with those of the Ranas, hereditary Prime Ministers. For the rest of its communications, Nepal depends on foot-runners, drum flourishes which announce major events, and one broadcasting station. This week Chicago's Cook Electric Co. was signed up by the International Cooperation Administration to bring modern communications to Nepal. Under a $1.5 million contract, Cook will set up a 1,500-line telephone system and a 50-station high-frequency radio...