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Royal Prospects. The King's prospects are better than his predecessors'. For more than a century the Kings of Nepal, whose subjects believe them to be the reincarnation of the god Vishnu, were virtual prisoners of their Prime Ministers, whose usurped power was handed down through the Rana family for generation after generation. A revolution sparked by neighboring India in 1950 toppled the Ranas and restored the Kings, under the benevolent protection of Jawaharlal Nehru, who needs mountainous Nepal as a buffer against Communist China...
...traffic in bird-of-paradise plumes has been internationally banned since 1924, to prevent the extinction of the birds. Learning that Nepal badly needed to replace its worn-out royal plumes, the U.S. shipped over a package of 100 plumes that had been stored in New York City's American Museum of Natural History...
...striped wrap-around coats. They were from tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan, a state perched in the Himalayas between India. Sikkim and Tibet. Although King Mahendra's close neighbors, they had traveled eight days-on foot and by pony to India, and then by plane to Nepal...
...King. Up to six months ago he ruled Bhutan (pop. 300,000) with the aid of a council of eight, 125 civil servants and a handful of palace guards. Among the Dragon King's closest advisers is bespectacled, English-speaking Jigme Dorji, 37, one of the delegation visiting Nepal. Although he is the King's brother-in-law, he has no title. "Just call me Mister," he told TIME Correspondent Jim Greenfield in Nepal last week. Elder Statesman Jigme told a sad story of modern influences overtaking tiny Bhutan...
Last week, as the battle continued to rage, Muhammad and his baffled master, out on bail, fled back to the mountain fastnesses of Nepal. After all, as Maganlal said, "A man can change his name but a dog cannot. No dog will answer to a different name...