Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved into politics, won a term (1949-51) as Governor of Connecticut. Many veterans of the clerical army of hundreds of thousands who worked for him as wartime Price Administrator are still fiercely loyal to him. Liberals fondly remember that as Harry Truman's U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal (1951-53), he fought hard for a U.S. understanding of Nehru's neutrality?which was highly unpopular in the State Department and Congress. They fondly tend to forget that he has less support than Kennedy in his home state of Connecticut, was defeated when he ran for re-election...
...China has been working overtime lately to put its neigh bors back to sleep. In January, Red China agreed to recognize the traditional (but never actually marked) McMahon Line as its common border with Burma. Last week Red China agreed to establish a joint committee to delineate with Nepal its boundary with Tibet. Until the committee completes its work, both nations agreed to "ensure tranquillity" by refraining from sending troops within 20 kilometers of the presumed border...
...Nepal agreement, signed in Peking at the close of a two-week state visit by anti-Communist Nepalese Premier B. P. Koirala. had the makings of a further Red Chinese penetration of the little Himalayan kingdom. A $21 million economic-aid agreement signed at the same time gave China the right, denied in a previous aid pact, to send in Chinese technicians. With Burma and Nepal thus tranquilized, Red China prepared to tackle its toughest border disagreement, i.e., with Jawaharlal Nehru's India. Much to the uneasiness of India's antiCommunists, New Delhi announced that Chou...
...choir soloist in Dover, Ohio, who became one of Billy's most faithful followers during his New York City Crusade in 1957, when she rounded up a Bible class of her Long Island friends for Evangelist Graham to address in private sessions. After a quick tiger-shoot in Nepal and a swing through Iran, Eleanor Whitney let it be known last week that she intends to join Graham, possibly to help by her musical know-how during the remaining weeks of the trip...