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What impression do the Nepalese have of Americans? "They tend to think of Americans as a friendly, outgoing people, easy to get along with, open and frank--and of course, damn rich." The future development of Nepal is heavily dependent upon America's riches, at present to the tune of an annual $11 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development alone. Since 1951, the United States has provided Nepal with well over $2 billion, but Shah remains highly critical of the uses that money has been put toward--in particular, of what he considers idealistic attempts to transform native...
...Western conception of democracy is particularly unsuited to present-day Nepal, he adds. "We want an egalitarian system, but we want it within the framework of our value system." The Western value system, preoccupied with materialism and status symbols, is not the kind of democracy Nepal needs. "Democracy is not a Campbell's soup mass-produced by Westminster Abbey and Capitol Hill," he asserts. "That is a completely perverted social attitude." Attempts to reform the monarchy are equally misplaced. "So Nepal is a hereditary monarchy. America is an elected...
Such is also the claim of Khadga Bir Bikram Shah, editor of a major daily newspaper in Nepal--and brother-in-law of the Nepalese King. A former fellow of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Shah this year returned home to southeast Asia during the most turbulent period in Nepal's recent past: for the first time in its history, the government of this tiny nation has temporarily released its oppressive clamp on public expression, permitting street demonstrations, political rallies and an uncensored press. In a recent interview, Shah examined Nepalese politics and reflected on his own role...
Most surprised of all those involved was Hufstedler herself. When the White House was checking into Hufstedler's background, the 54-year old judge was on vacation in the hinterlands of Nepal, conquering yet another stretch of the Himalayas. When administration officials contacted Hufstedler upon her return to the United States, she assumed they wanted to talk legal shop. But when the officials suggested that Hufstedler take the 13th chair in the Carter cabinet, she was taken aback. But now, almost four months since her December 6 inauguration as the nation's first Secretary of Education, Shirley Hufstedler...
...world's best bird-watchers, and a professional traveller. He has journeyed through South America, lived among a stone age tribe in New Guinea, and with turtlehunters in the Carribbean. The Himalayan trip was more than just another notch in his belt. Matthiessen is a Zen Buddhist and Nepal is the navel of his world...