Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 62 rail miles from Anchorage, but for all the good it does Alaskans, it might as well be in Tibet...
Wedged between Tibet and India, Sikkim usually has been tributary to one or another of its neighbors. When India won its independence from Brit ain in 1947, so did Sikkim. But to the late Maharajah, freedom brought more problems than profit. One day in 1949, several thousand peasants swarmed around the blue and white royal palace (actually a large bungalow) demanding an elected national council and tax reforms. Tashi submitted to the experi ment in democracy for 29 days and then, feeling unable to cope with what was called "threatened disorder," asked India's Nehru for help. Nehru sent...
...Princeton, she complained that "they showed bad manners-very bad manners-at Harvard." But Old Nassau was not much more polite. Some 250 pickets, including six Buddhist monks from a monastery in Freewood Acres, N.J., refugees from Tibet and Russia, turned up to razz her. Protested Mme. Nhu: "You're not helping us by hissing or booing us. Tell us precisely what's wrong with...
...Communist Goals: "Their aim is to overthrow the way of life free men have chosen for themselves and substitute their own. Their tactics are to undermine, harry and probe weaknesses everywhere, backing up if necessary their probes with force. Today it is the Congo, Laos, Tibet and Cuba. Tomorrow it will be another selection. That is what Mr. Khrushchev calls peaceful coexistence. There is very little peaceful about it except that, with luck, the guns don't fire...
Instead, China apparently intends to keep out of the NEFA so long as her own possession of Ladakh, with its military highway to Tibet, remains undisturbed by the Indians. Quite aside from the lateness of the season, it is extremely unlikely that the Indians will ever disturb China in Ladakh. Last year's fighting showed India the dangers of opposing China militarily. Before risking military action, she would have to compose her quarrel with Pakistan, a procedure which would probably cost her more territory in Kashmir than she would gain in Ladakh...