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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tibet. The current Dalai Lama, then 15 years old, was still undergoing monastic training as successor to the previous Dalai Lama and had not yet assumed leadership of the country. After consulting with the state oracle, however, the Tibetans made him head of state to better defend the nation. On a visit to China soon after his inauguration, he was seized, virtually imprisoned, and coerced into signing a treaty giving control of Tibet to China. The treaty supposedly allowed Tibet to retain its cultural autonomy...
...nation that was Tibet no longer exists. The monasteries are gone, the land belongs to China, and the Tibetans have either been killed or assimilated. And yet, while China may have vanquished the country of Tibet, it cannot kill the Tibetan spirit. Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans throughout the world, as well as adherents of Tibetan Buddhism of all nationalities, still recognize the Dalai Lama as their leader. And many non-Tibetan Buddhists bow down before him as well. He is, perhaps, the world's most powerful living representative of the Asian religious ideal...
...Chinese call the "University of the Laughing Buddha." Carrying with him centuries of Eastern wisdom he expressed his deep gratitude to America for her hospitality, and said the U.S. has a vital spiritual-historical role at this time. Since the U.S. is the world's most materially successful nation, Tibet, a spiritual society and America's opposite image, has a lot to teach. A journalist at the press conference last week asked for a concise statement of his ideas for America. The Dalai Lama meditated briefly, as if drawing on lifetimes of teachings, and said, "Kindness and love--this...
...this reasoning neglects the benefits of supporting Israel--a country established and maintained through American aid. To abandon a nation we helped create discredits our responsibility to the rest of our allies...
...small, but it is nimble. Last week American Motors Corp., which produces only 1.83% of the nation's cars, swung a deal with Renault, the French-owned automaker, that should help it cope with the expected demand for small, gas-stingy cars. AMC will get $150 million from Renault, $50 million in credits, and the rights to build the French company's newly designed front-wheel-drive car starting in 1982. The U.S. firm would thus have an entry to challenge General Motors' X-body compact cars, which are now being marketed, and the new models that...