Word: sikkim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, Dev Prasad Kumar, special representative of the Statesman, New Delhi and Calcutta, "will concentrate his study in international affairs on the history and politics of India and plans to make a comprehensive study of the development of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan...
Wafting out of Sikkim to settle her three stepchildren in English schools, Her fragile Highness Queen Hope Namgyal, 25, was in London when she learned of the Red Chinese threat to her tiny Himalayan kingdom. Hope was brave. "There is an old Tibetan prophecy which says that trouble in Sikkim would be as rare as a comet at midday," she said, "and also would be like the shadow of an eagle's wing." Besides, she added, "there is the Sikkim national guard to protect us"-fierce Sikkimese all, to be sure, but only 280 of them. The Queen flew...
Shortly after last week's cease-fire went into effect, Communist China accused India of still another act of "aggression" at Natu Pass, high in the Himalayas above Sikkim. The Chinese charged that a group of Indian soldiers had occupied "three aggressive military works" on the boundary and confronted Chinese frontier guards for 2½ hours. Actually, the soldiers were merely escorting four visiting journalists, among them TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. His report...
...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...
Resuming Arms. At week's end New Delhi was astir with reports of Red Chinese troop movements, not only on the Sikkim border but far to the west in Ladakh as well. In Washington, Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru strode into Secretary of State Dean Rusk's office to ask for resumption of U.S. arms shipments...