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Weather in the Mountain. Last month Pilot Draper and his crew-as well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
Nepal provides a buffer along 400 miles of the high Himalayan terrain between India and Chinese-occupied Tibet. Chinese incursions have come from Tibet where India and Tibet meet west of Nepal, and Chinese forces have been reported on the Tibet-Nepal border...
Eighteen of the rebels, including Castro, fled to the unknown terrain of the hills and promptly got lost. Possibly 20 rebels were killed during the fighting. When they were brought to trial, the rebels numbered only 27, over 70 of the captured and wounded, with innocent townspeople, having been assasinated by the berserk soldiers...
...this tension from within, forming a narrow, steep-sided rift that grows slowly wider. When the rift is about 60 miles wide, a fresh rift forms in its center. More rifts form as long as the tension continues, and their steep sides accumulate in a broad band of rugged terrain on both sides of the youngest rift. Since the tension is caused by rising molten material, this cracked-up region is apt to be somewhat elevated, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
...nation, without electricity, hotels or shops, which gets a healthy subsidy from India. The only direct mule road from India to Bhutan passes through part of Tibet, and in any fighting the Bhutan army of 2,500, equipped with rifles and bows and arrows, would have only the rugged terrain to its advantage. Bhutan is ruled by a handsome, English-speaking, archery-loving young Dragon King who has freed the slaves, discouraged prostration in the royal presence, and decreed equality for women. He is determined to keep his country's independence. Anxious about Bhutan, Nehru has invited its Prime...