Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...available. Last week UNESCO Secretary-General René Maheu added up what had been gathered by passing the international hat. Egypt pledged $11.5 million. West Germany gave $1,845,000, Italy $1,800,000. India $714,000, Cuba $160.000. In all. 37 countries contributed, including Bolivia and Nepal, each of which gave $1,000, but the total is more than $22 million short...
...Israel 874.7 3.0 877.7 Jordan 325.2 24.1 349.3 Lebanon 80.4 8.6 89.0 Saudi Arabia 46.6 46.6 Syria 75.8 75.8 Turkey 1,581.3 2,288.0 3,869.3 U.A.R. (Egypt) 628.6 628.6 Yemen 22.9 22.9 CENTO 27.4 27.4 Afghanistan 216.8 2.8 219.6 Ceylon 79.7 79.7 India 3,952.0 3,952.0 Nepal 48.4 48.4 Pakistan 1,889.6 1,889.6 Indus Basins 33.8 33.8 Regional...
...another little lesson aimed at Delhi. At the farewell banquet for Tsedenbal, Premier Chou En-lai smoothly noted that Red China had now solved its border problems on the basis of "peaceful coexistence" with Burma, Nepal, Pakistan and Outer Mongolia, making the point that only two neighbors now remain with whom China has not made a border adjustment: India and the Soviet Union...
...amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...
Initialed Map. Under the British raj, London played what Lord Curzon called "the great game." Its object was to protect India's northern borders from Russia by fostering semi-independent buffer states like Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. In those palmy colonial days, Tibet was militarily insignificant, and China, which claims overlordship of Tibet, was usually too weak to exercise...