Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking's brutality in suppressing the Buddhist revolt in Tibet in 1959 outraged the world. Monks were shot, forced to sole their worn boots with sacred Buddhist texts, induced to take opiates. Members of a strict male celibate order were locked up with prostitutes imported for the occasion. Some of the younger monks gave way and then committed suicide in shame...
...NEPAL: invaded by 5,000 Communist Chinese technicians who are nearing completion of a $9,800,000 road linking Chinese-occupied Tibet to the Nepalese capital of Katmandu...
Communist airbases in Tibet are only 500 miles from key Indian targets, while India's northernmost base is 2,500 miles from major Chinese cities...
When Grindle, who claims to have "willed" all spermatozoa away, suspects his student is pregnant, he ships her off to Tibet. There she encounters a holy man "wearing a simple loincloth" and some unholy tourists. A number of American tourists were following him along, taking pictures of him, offering him money and bits of bread. He seemed quite unaware of their presence, however ... When a cute little girl of six was sent up to him by one of the mothers to get his autograph, he appeared not even to see her. This caused a certain amount of bitter feeling...
Ornithology & OSS. Ripley is certainly no triumph of taxidermy. Science-minded since youth, he made his first field trip at 13 when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds." Ripley's career as a migrant ornithologist took him to Southeast Asia, Nepal and India. During World War II, as the OSS intelligence chief in Ceylon, he happily combined bird watching with training secret agents...