Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bustling into the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal on the way home from his trip to India last spring, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai wore his sunniest friendship grin. Mouthing sentiments of peace and solidarity, Chou happily played the role of Nepal's big brother in Asia, signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala that was designed to soothe border frictions...
Last week Chou sent a special note to Nepal's Foreign Office to assure it that Red Chinese troops pursuing Tibetan rebels would not violate Nepal's borders (thereby admitting for the first time that there was a rebellion in Tibet). Two days later, a Chinese Communist party attacked a Nepalese border patrol, killed one officer, kidnaped 17 Nepalese...
...Nepal took alarm; the Nepalese Senate passed a resolution calling for military training for boys and girls over 14 years old, and Koirala fired off a protest...
...mentioned that the King and Queen of Nepal had to be accommodated in a third-class hotel...
...bargains had spread so widely that the city's hotels were swamped. Only five hotels (mostly of prewar vintage) are rated first-class, and their 760 rooms all have waiting lists. On their way to visit President Eisenhower in Washington last month, the King and Queen of Nepal had to put up in a third-class hotel. In third-class hotels (and even in second-class), bell boys freely peddle the services of call girls. Another traveler, in desperation, spent the night at the Shanghai Bathhouse and Massage Parlor near the airport, emerged next day declaring he felt...