Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medium. His antihero, Joe Talon, is a superefficient analyst of satellite photos for the CIA in Manhattan. He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene. When Talon detects a curious and erroneous-or doctored?-cloud cover masking a remote area of Nepal, he bucks the Establishment to prove his suspicions, survives sundry assassination attempts and blows open a nasty conspiracy within the Company. He also manages a rather touching love affair and some motorcycle exploits worthy of Evel Knievel...
Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, is among 93 people who signed an appeal seeking the release from a Nepal jail of B. P. Koirala, former prime minister of Nepal, a spokesman for Social Democrats, USA said testerday...
...appeal was sent to King Birendra of Nepal last month by Social Democrats, Paul Gershman, executive director of the organization, said yesterday...
Koirala, who was prime minister of Nepal from 1959 until a royal takeover in 1960 abolished the constitutional monarchy, spent eight years in a Nepalese jail...
Koirala returned to Nepal in December 1976 and was arrested on charges of treason, inciting to murder, arson and sedition. Each of these charges is punishable by death, Gershman said...