Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, where man-eating tigers kill scores of villagers a year, the shikar (tiger hunt) is a popular and practical pastime. The mark of a man is his hunting prowess, and the Nepalese still fondly recall the bloody 1911 visit of Britain's King George V, who carted away the carcasses of 39 tigers, 18 rhinos and four bears-plus one unfortunate leopard, run over by the royal mail van. Last week another royal Briton, Queen Elizabeth II, flew into Katmandu from India, and for George's granddaughter, impoverished Nepal (per capita income estimated...
...Action. But Philip was out of action with a "whitlow infection" (more commonly known as a boil) on his trigger finger. Accordingly, Nepal's King Mahendra passed the honor to Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Home. Eight times elephants goaded the snarling tigress into the open "firing zone." Three times Lord Home shot. He missed all three...
...treating the Indians with scorn. In January, Premier Chou En-lai ratified a border treaty with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector of Kashmir...
Koirala's own efforts at reform had been mild enough. To get money for roads to replace Nepal's mountain trails and for schools to educate its 94% illiterate population, Koirala imposed a minuscule income tax on land with such a generous cutoff point that only 500 of the biggest landowners would have to pay anything at all. But Nepal has never paid income taxes and was not planning to start. Grumbled one Hindu leader: "Why should we pay taxes when we can always get more money from the Americans?" To rally resistance, the prospective taxpayers assiduously spread...
Even the King concedes that taxes are inevitable if Nepal is to reform its medieval economy. But Mahendra made clear that if there was any reforming to be done, he was going to do it. And for the moment he wanted no interfering politicians getting in his way or claiming credit...