Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strained relations between Nepal and India. Last fall Mahendra and Giri traveled to Peking, where they got the full treatment-little flower girls at the airport, a cymbal-and-gong concert, repeated toasts to eternal Chinese-Nepalese friendship. Peking proved amiable in demarcating the border between Red-run Tibet and Nepal, and even accepted a splendidly Oriental compromise on the question of who owns Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Foreign Minister Giri explains that both sides agreed that Chomolongma (the Tibetan name for Everest) is "in China," while Sagar Matha (Nepali for Everest) is "in Nepal." Observed...
Nehru's government was stunned to discover that the King and Giri had also granted Red China permission to build a highway through the soaring Himalayas to link Nepal's capital, Katmandu, with Tibet's capital, Lhasa. The road not only opens Nepal to direct Communist influence but poses an immediate military threat to India by bringing the Red Chinese through the icy barrier of the Himalayas down to a connecting highway leading to the broad and populous plains of the Ganges River. "The security of India," said a worried Delhi official, "is directly tied up with...
...membership, for instance, 19 black African nations, largely as a result of a frank political deal and skillful U.S. lobbying, did not side with Peking. Only last week the 50 Afro-Asian nations made no move to block a U.S.-backed condemnation of Red China as an aggressor against Tibet. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland believes that the "colonialism" issue may soon run out of steam ("A lot of the delegates regard it as a bore"), because there is simply not much colonialism left...
...villagers are Tibetan refugees who were flown in to Zurich two months ago by chartered plane. Their Unterwasser home has an elevation of 3,000 ft., only about one-fourth that of Tibet, but Switzerland lies 15° north of their Asian homeland and the climatic conditions are much the same. Explains Lama Wangyal about the extraordinary transplant: "The mountains make us happy. We do not have forests, and our houses are built of stone, not wood. But this is also a country of snow, cheese and milk...
Like their God-King, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans left their homes to escape brutal Red Chinese repression after the failure of the 1959 revolt. They were brought to Switzerland by ten Swiss calling themselves Friends of Tibet, and including members of a 1953 Himalayan mountain-climbing expedition, Asia scholars, authors and businessmen. The intense, quiet-mannered Tibetan moppets instantly charmed the Swiss with their small, deft hands and disarming smiles. The adults are faring equally well. In Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes...