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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respects to the wife of Prince Aly Khan, whose father ruled their Ismaili sect. Asians in Africa are about 800,000 strong. While the white rulers have begrudgingly tolerated Africa's Asians, the blacks have become increasingly resentful of them. For a continent-wide report on the increasing number and growing problems of Asians in Africa, see FOREIGN NEWS. Between Black & White...
...whether Under Secretary Christian Herter would succeed Dulles, the President, patently still shaken by the news from Washington, said confusingly that "no final decision" had been made, that "there are a number of people . . . who have particular talent in this field, and there are all kinds of considerations to be studied...
...Herters have four children: Christian Jr., defeated candidate for Massachusetts attorney general in last fall's elections; Frederic, New York surgeon; Miles, Massachusetts business executive; Adele, amateur painter and wife of a New York pathologist. Number of grandchildren...
...will and not under duress," and said that his "quite arduous" escape was only possible "due to the loyalty and affectionate support of his Tibetan people." In unemotional language (he was pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks and officials into labor camps. He had left Lhasa in fear of his own life, said the Dalai Lama, when the Communists opened fire on his Norbulingka palace with mortar shells...
Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and another 130 across the border in the Israeli town of Haik...