Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Journey to Peking. Returning to Lhasa, the 17-year-old Dalai Lama received the Red emissaries with frank curiosity. Much of what they proposed-schools, roads, hospitals, light industry-met his approval. Many Tibetans welcomed the break with the feudal past, argued: "We must learn modern methods from someone-why...
His words were proved true in the border province of Kham, where the Reds had been longer in control. The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized. Nomad Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss...
The night before, she was still plain Miss Shoda, but from the moment her mother called her at 5 the next morning, she was already "Your Highness." "Take care of yourself," said a relative who had come to see her off, "when you go over there." A little after 6...
Deep Surgery. When Castro was fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba's eastern mountains, he advertised his revolution's aims as a purge of governmental and social corruption and a restoration of justice and democracy. He has carried out the purge, effectively cutting off official corruption and cutting...
But Castro has indefinitely put off the restoration of democracy-elections, a Congress, civil justice-pending a deep-surgery social revolution that he has had in mind for half a dozen years. He spoke little of this kind of revolution during his anti-Batista fight, which was financed by rich...