Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...documents was a Red Chinese officer's secret report smuggled out of China, presumably via Tibet, and released to TIME by the State Department. Sybil Wong, who with Shirley Monck did the bulk of the cover researching in New York, spent several days translating the secret report for Writer Robert McLaughlin...
...Buddhist nonviolence embraces bugs but not Catholics. Besides the thousands martyred by Buddhists in China, India, Ceylon, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Siam, Burma and Malaya, the extremely conservative martyrology of the church lists eight bishops, 184 priests, 2,370 nuns and 75,380 lay persons beheaded, strangled, starved or dismembered by Vietnamese Buddhists between the Edict of Jan. 6, 1833 and the Peace of June...
...Viet Nam and elsewhere, Buddhists often took an active part in fighting against colonial powers. During the Korean war, at least some Buddhists were preaching that "to wipe out the American imperialist demons is not only blameless but meritorious." Ignoring the Chinese Communists' cruel persecution of Buddhism in Tibet, some Buddhists reason (as one scholar puts it) that when the Marxists' material needs are satisfied, they will "need something spiritual above and beyond," and that Buddhism will be able to supply it. It is this sort of self-delusion-existing alongside Buddhism's nobility of spirit-that...
...Many scientists doubt Astronaut Gordon Cooper's report of seeing trucks on the road and smoke coming out of chimneys in Tibet. According to Dr. W. R. Adey of U.C.L.A., this is equivalent to seeing objects 1 in. in diameter 4,000 ft. away. He thinks Cooper had disorders of vision or judgment...
...Into Tibet. Days before, a sudden gust of gale-force wind at the 25,000-ft. level had blown away their tents and spare oxygen bottles, knocked two members of their support party 100 ft. down Everest's flank. Hornbein and Unsoeld were dangerously low on supplies. The climbers had to pick their way around huge outcroppings of rock. Now and then, searching for a foothold, they disregarded passport restrictions and stepped across the Nepalese border into Communist Tibet. No one expected them to go all the way-just to climb as far as they could...