Word: rishikesh
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Manhattan newspapers' avoidance of the racial tag posed a more delicate problem for editors. Nepal's U.N. Delegate Rishikesh Shaha was stabbed and robbed in Central Park last week, and six of the city's seven major dailies (exception: the Daily News) omitted any racial description of the muggers. But then some of the U.N.'s Asian and African delegates began murmuring that brown-skinned Ambassador Shaha had been attacked because of his color. The conscientious New York Times promptly reported that both thugs were Negroes, while the Herald Tribune described one of them...