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...whispered political discussions. Single-page underground newspapers circulated in an attempt to provide information barred by censors from India's once lively established dailies. Some politicians who have not yet been arrested have gone into hiding; others have become temporary political emigres by slipping over the border into Nepal...
...process of annexation actually began in April 1973, when the Chogyal asked Indian troops to help control demonstrators who were threatening to storm his palace in Gangtok. The riots stemmed from a controversy over the nation's electoral procedures-a system that inadequately represented the settlers from neighboring Nepal, who make up 75% of Sikkim's population of 210,000. India subdued the demonstrators -whom they may have instigated in the first place-and then pressured the Chogyal into accepting a constitutional agreement that virtually stripped him of all power...
...otherwise the increasingly arid scene of Harvard Square. Large numbers of students and other passersby seem to enjoy it, too, and to take advantage of the opportunities it offers to buy hand-made things, bargain books, records and exotic things that backpackers have just brought in from Guatemala, Peru, Nepal and Ethiopia...
...speech to his people, the young King, who feels a sense of mission to modernize his country, called for Nepal to enter a "new age" in which poverty and illiteracy would be overcome. Toward that end, he ordered his government to make primary education free to every child (at present only 13% of his 12 million subjects are literate). He emphasized that Nepal would continue to pursue a nonaligned foreign policy and remain scrupulously neutral in matters affecting its giant neighbors, India and China. By tradition the Nepalese have feared domination by India, and were greatly concerned when New Delhi...
...arrested for driving left of center on a street near Santa Barbara, Calif. By Ford's side was pretty, red-haired Kathleen DuRoss, 35, a sometime model for the Ford Motor Co. (Ford's wife Cristina was off in Katmandu at the coronation of the King of Nepal.) When Ford flunked a roadside sobriety test (he was asked to recite the alphabet), he was handcuffed and taken to Santa Barbara Hospital for a blood test, then to the county jail, where he was booked for drunken driving. After four hours in a holding cell, he posted...