Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mobile Colossus. As China's armed forces are now disposed, the heaviest concentration-roughly six armies-is opposite Formosa. Four armies are positioned along the North Korean border and another five spread west through Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. Three armies hold rebellious Tibet, and those massed in south China total seven-one guards vulnerable Hainan Island, another is stationed in mountainous Yunnan province, and three are lined up along the North Vietnamese border. Two other armies are in reserve near Canton...
When the Chinese Communists seized Tibet in 1959 and drove its Buddhist god-King, the Dalai Lama, into exile, Peking found what it thought was a ready puppet in the kingdom's No. 2 Buddhist, the Panchen Lama. The Panchen seemed a perfect choice, since he was born and raised in China and had long coveted his master's post. Mao Tse-tung beamed benevolently as the young successor was given his official title, Acting Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The Reds even made him a Deputy in Peking's parliament...
...Panchen's popularity was doomed to fade. Last month the Communists' military commander in Tibet began lashing out at unnamed "schemers" who were "plotting the restoration of integration of politics and religion." Sure enough, he was talking about the Panchen Lama, on whom so many Communist hopes had been pinned. Last week the Panchen was not only out of his job in the Red Chinese parliament, but had been stripped of his Tibetan chairmanship as well and forced to confess "antipeople, anti-state and anti-socialist activities." To Asian Buddhists, many of whom nurture the illusion that they...
Died. William Montgomery McGovern, 67, political science professor at Northwestern University, who was the first Westerner to enter Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa, befriended Chinese Revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and served as a top World War II intelligence adviser, experiences that made his "McGoo" lectures the featured attraction on Northwestern's campus for 30 years; after a long illness; in Evanston...
Flourishing abroad, Buddhism languished in its birthplace as the Indian monks grew rich and corrupt under state patronage. Today, Buddhists constitute less than 1% of India's population, and the faith is kept alive largely by untouchable converts fleeing the caste system. But in Tibet, Buddhism evolved into a theocracy which lasted 400 years, until the Chinese drove the current Dalai Lama into exile...