Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of British rule, very little attention was paid to it, and there was no interference with Chinese traffic on the trade route between Tibet and Sinkiang. After China took control of the Tibetan government, a hard-surfaced road was built through Ladakh, and Chinese troops occupied the region. This alarmed the Indians, who moved up troops of their own and began harassing the Chinese. Today the Chinese hold most of the disputed area, and are bringing up troops for assaults on the last remaining Indian strongholds...
...Sixth Fleet. With 60 ships, 200 planes and 30,000 men, Anderson spider-webbed the Mediterranean, keeping watch on trouble spots and dogging Soviet "trawlers." He also worked as a diplomat, became friendly with European leaders who came to regard him as a representative of U.S. policy in the region...
Greedy Banyas. The entire region lay open to the Chinese as far as Tezpur on the Brahmaputra, 100 miles from Towang. Indian planters who had displayed unruffled British calm began shipping their families south. Forty-five U.S. Baptist missionaries in eastern Assam began to pull out, turning over mission schools and hospitals to Indian assistants. Some imported food was in short supply, and India's banyas (village shopkeepers) took advantage of the situation to boost prices. The evidence of the Chinese advance came, oddly enough, from transistor radios. At first it was possible to tune in on Indian army...
...sketchy story was briefly and inconspicuously reported by British and French newspapers; last month Radio Liberty, an emigre broadcasting outfit in Munich, beamed the rumor back to Russia. Among the circumstantial supporting evidence: 1) the entire Rostov region was suddenly declared off limits to foreign tourists in June, supposedly because of a cholera epidemic, although a major track meet was held on July 8 and Russian citizens were allowed to move freely in the allegedly disease-ridden area; 2) Novocherkassk imposed a curfew on young people, to remain in effect for two years; 3) Nikita Khrushchev's second...
...dictionary, billed as "by far the most comprehensive Bible Dictionary ever published," is the first major definer of Bible terms to be published in 50 years. Its 8,000 entries include "every person named in the Bible or Apocrypha; every town and region, hill and stream; every plant, animal and mineral; every object used in daily life; every Biblical doctrine and theological concept...