Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva brusquely jailed Prime Minister B. P. Koirala, thus bringing an abrupt end to the first government ever to be elected democratically in Nepal. Then, the King explained ingeniously that he had acted because the Koirala government was "killing the people's democratic aspirations." Last week, talking to a TIME correspondent in Katmandu, the King gave a more candid reason: "The Koirala government was always trying to put me in an awkward position . . . It preached that the King was standing in the way of reform...
...Chinese promised Nepal $13 million worth of aid, one-third in cash, the remainder in industrial equipment ; the cash arrived, but the equipment was never delivered...
...ever receiving $320 million promised by the Chinese in 1955, the Vietnamese finally, in 1959 and 1960, turned to Russia for firmer help. In an attempt to save face, Red China has negotiated a new agreement which incorporates the defaulted aid (similar face-saving pacts were recently concluded with Nepal and Cambodia...
...though the government forehandedly registered 60 Russians to make it seem less segregated. Moreover, on the theory that some of the blame was due to getting the "wrong" kind of student. Friendship University has tried to pick its own students abroad (India balked at that condition; Burma, the Congo, Nepal and Ethiopia refused to let any students go). Friendship University seems to have plenty of money, room, and even its courses do not smack too much of party dogmatism. But Russia has a long way to go before it can compete equally with the U.S., Britain or France as first...
...rigorous anti-Communist with progressive policies, Koirala began pushing through land and tax reforms, soon had gathered the reins of government to himself. King Mahendra, who as monarch is regarded by Nepal's pious Hindus as a reincarnation of the god Vishnu, was left little beyond his religious duties...