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...rise from an area they've rendered, up until lately, inaccessible and unexploitable. But they are there, and because they are people are scaling them and breaching them. Their delicate ecology and their inhabitants age-old existence is being squeezed into a different mold. The mountain world of India, Nepal and Tibet is sliding from what it was, and still is in pockets, into what it will become. The Snow Leopard documents this change...
...pretext to put pressure on an erstwhile ally that is leaning more and more toward Moscow. Soviet technical aid and loans have reinforced the Kremlin's influence in Viet Nam. Fearful of being encircled by Soviet-dominated countries, Peking this year has dispatched high-level diplomatic missions to Burma, Nepal and North Korea in an effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia...
...Fiji Islanders and the Irish are still on the way, but already on the ground in southern Lebanon are some 4,500 blue-helmeted soldiers from France, Norway, Canada, Senegal, Nigeria, Iran and Nepal. These polyglot forces make up the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Its mandate: to form a buffer zone between the Israeli army and the guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week TIME Cairo Correspondent Dean Brelis and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff separately visited the region for a glimpse of what U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has called "the most difficult peace-keeping...
...Iranian troops struck me as the most listless of the U.N. forces, and the Gurkhas from Nepal as the most contented. They brought their bugles and drums with them to Lebanon, and an enormous silver bell used both for ceremonies and for sounding an alarm. "Our King believes in peace," says the Nepalese commander, Lieut. Colonel Keshar Bahadur Gantaula. "We came here in that spirit, and we'll give anyone a fair chance. But, of course, if they don't respond, then we'll fight...
...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...