Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forum's program will be filled by Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama, the exiled ruler of Tibet. Thondup, currently in New York to present the Tibetan case against Communist China before the United Nations, will address the Forum on the evening...
...show that even the slogan omitted "Freedom," counter information and sentiments were pressed upon the delegates both within and outside of the Festival. Over Vienna small planes towed signs reading Remember Hungary and Remember Tibet, and the Austrians offered free rides to see the reality of the Hungarian border's barbed wire and watch-towers. With the cooperation of the Americans, students published a seven language newspaper to present accounts ignored in the Russian reports. All over Vienna bookstores displayed books impossible to obtain in satellite countries, and "Information Booths" sought to attract the wandering delegates. And there...
...Communists had helped consolidate their initial conquest of China by intervention in Korea. The bombardment of Quemoy in 1958 had helped reconcile China's masses to the strains of the big leap. Now, to divert attention from its failure, Peking could point to the bloody revolt in Tibet, Indian "aggression" along the Tibetan frontier, and "the plot of the U.S. imperialists" in Laos...
...Nerve. From then on, the twinges came hard and fast. Neutral Ireland, to the dismay of neutral India, sought support for an Assembly resolution branding Red China a violator of human rights by its repression in Tibet. Ghana's Ako-Adjei charged that Nyasaland is "a police state under British rule." Belgium's Pierre Wigny announced that his country is "now organizing political democracy" in the riot-swept Congo, and Austria's Dr. Bruno Kreisky warned that if Italy does not grant autonomy to the German-speaking people of the South Tyrol-an area that Italy acquired...
...limousine, Jeep and horse, guides steered the domesticated newsmen along a beaten path that carefully skirted Communist Chinese troops fighting on India's border, a do-or-die stand by Khamba tribesmen in western Tibet. Even when the opportunity for independent sightseeing presented itself, the newsmen turned away; no one interviewed India's Consul General Shiv Lai Chhiber, spotted in a Lhasa rug shop, because, as one correspondent explained: "Our main interest was in social reforms...