Word: oure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked why the border was not better defended, Nehru replied that it is 2,500 miles long, remote, mountainous and scarcely accessible. What about Chinese claims to the tiny Himalayan nations of Bhutan and Sikkim? Said Nehru: "Our position is quite clear. Any aggression against Bhutan and Sikkim will be...
The Indian press, which had wakened to Peking before Nehru did, cheered him for taking a strong stand at last. "China's cynical attitude toward India, combined with the hard realities of Communism at home as experienced in Kerala, is forcing on this country an 'agonizing reappraisal'...
Much of the bloodshed in the province can really be traced to the political quarrels of two old rivals for the Ilocos congressional seat in Manila. One is the Liberal Party's Floro Crisologo, who served three terms, then lost to his enemy, Nacionalista Congressman Faustino Tobia. "Sure, I...
In Djakarta he assailed President Eisenhower; in Baghdad he conferred with officials of the Russian, Czech, Bulgarian and Yugoslav missions. In Communist Yugoslavia he told interviewers: "It is our wish to see and perhaps apply Yugoslav experiences in Cuba"; in New Delhi he told the pro-Communist weekly Blitz: "We...
Breaking into Prison. Life in Ecuador for Nate Saint, his trained-nurse wife Marjorie, and their three children was a story of emergencies and hardships that would pale the most jazzed-up TV script. Nate wrote of hairbreadth landings on narrow jungle airstrips that were "like parking a car at...