Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things done that is rare in inefficient Nepal. A political opponent says: "He keeps his word; that's what counts most." The Prime Minister can expect continuing help from India in money and technicians because Nepal, on the border of Tibet, is a strategic mountain barrier to Red Chinese expansion. The U.S. is supporting road-building projects, developing civil aviation, and setting up a radio communication net to bring Katmandu into verbal contact with the rest of the country. The Soviet Union has promised Nepal a new hydroelectric plant and factories for refining sugar and making cigarettes. Both...
Sharing the vaguely socialist views of India's Nehru, but "with room for free-enterprise capitalism," the energetic Prime Minister recognizes Communists as his enemies at home and Red China as his enemy abroad; in typical Red "cartographic aggression," Chinese maps lay claim to large chunks of Nepal. Not long ago, Koirala declared that "the Tibetan tragedy was an Asian parallel to the Hungarian annihilation." Nehru has not been heard to say as much about either Tibet or Hungary...
...flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands. Twenty-five helicopters shuttled the injured to hospitals. A jet plane flew in from Japan with 35,000 units of tetanus serum to combat infection. Claims commissioners, given orders to "cut all red tape," quickly went to work compensating families for destroyed property. Shelter was found for the homeless. But, despite all efforts, 16 people died (twelve of them children) and 121 were injured...
...buyers named by the Cuban envoy: Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," who started a spectacular career by stunt parachuting over Harlem in red tights, playing a saxophone...
...Red daily Hoy is distributed free at army camps. At Camp Libertad near...