Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes used to re-enact the Crucifixion by nailing a member of their sect...
...civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...
...branded this systematic annihilation of Tibetan life as "genocide." Three times the United Nations has censured Peking for "violating fundamental human rights and freedom." The Dalai Lama told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who journeyed to the god-king's exile in the Indian Himalayas at Dharmsala, that "Tibet still exists despite all the Chinese have done. But I don't know for how long. Another 20 years like this and there will be no Tibet...
...Tibetans have bravely tried to resist their destruction. Fierce mountain tribesmen staged bloody rebellions, and Tibetans forcibly recruited into the army have on occasion turned their weapons against the Chinese. Peking's puppet "Tibet Autonomous Region" collapsed because Tibetan "collaborators," including Mao's own Peking-groomed leader, the Panchen Lama, refused to cooperate with their Chinese overlords any longer. The Chinese had to establish a military dictatorship, and last fall Peking formally abandoned all pretense of Tibetan self-rule...
...Tibet's slim hope for survival resides in the chaos that has overtaken Mao's Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards have split into rival factions and are warring among themselves and with the military, though last week Peking claimed that the Maoists were in full control of all China's provinces, including Tibet. Earlier, the longtime army commander in Tibet was replaced, and battles among the Chinese occupiers were reported to be raging sporadically in Lhasa. Essential services, including transportation, communications and food shipments, have broken down. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Tibetans are issuing anti-Chinese...