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...India, Jackie rode a 35-year-old elephant named Bibi, shrank against Prime Minister Nehru in ladylike horror while watching a mongoose battle a cobra (see cut), saw a polo match and cleared jumps on a horse. Before she left, Air-India presented her with twin tiger cubs: the problem of what to do with them was solved when they died...
...Justifying emergency rule when subversion threatens to overthrow a regime. A similar clause was used by Jawaharlal Nehru to impose President's Rule from Delhi on the state of Kerala after it voted Communist in 1957. - And her body, well embalmed, was kept in a hushed room in the C.G.T. Building. After Per&243;n fell, it disappeared. *First stop on a long trail leading to Madrid. Other stops: Paraguay, Panama, followed by residences in lands then ruled by fellow dictators -Perez Jimenez' Venezuela, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Franco's Spain...
...welled up in thousands of Indian throats last week as Jacqueline Kennedy paraded across India in triumph, more than making up by her charm, good looks and splendidly attired figure for three postponements and at least 47 separate schedule changes. The trip, undertaken as a result of Prime Minister Nehru's personal invitation, was semiofficial, but it had most of the trappings, tight schedules and points-of-interest panoply of a full-fledged state visit. Hailed as the Amriki Rani, or Queen of America, Jackie was accompanied wherever she went by elegantly attired attendants who, with their turbans tilting...
...Nehru's government was stunned to discover that the King and Giri had also granted Red China permission to build a highway through the soaring Himalayas to link Nepal's capital, Katmandu, with Tibet's capital, Lhasa. The road not only opens Nepal to direct Communist influence but poses an immediate military threat to India by bringing the Red Chinese through the icy barrier of the Himalayas down to a connecting highway leading to the broad and populous plains of the Ganges River. "The security of India," said a worried Delhi official, "is directly tied up with...
Indian Whisper. Giri replies that India has only itself to blame for the Red threat, that Nepal would not need Chinese aid if Nehru took action against the Nepali rebels who use Indian territory as a refuge and a training area. Referring to Rebel Chief Subarna, who is half deaf, Giri adds: "If India just whispered in Subarna's good ear, 99% of the raids would stop...