Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the same time, Peking angrily objected to the facts that the U.S. has been letting Tibetan refugees maintain an office in New York and that a Tibetan song-and-dance troupe is now being allowed to play across the country. China took over Tibet in 1951, and is annoyed by any hospitality shown Tibetan refugees. Washington is puzzled by such seemingly silly incidents, coming just before Kissinger's visit, and is uncertain just what should be made of them. The best guess is that the Chinese are warning the U.S. that it cannot forever support Taiwan and remain...
...similar interventions, explained the annexation by simply observing that the people of Sikkim want it that way. Some observers argue, however, that New Delhi simply wanted to tighten its grip on an area it feels crucial to its defense. Sikkim is a buffer between India and Chinese-controlled Tibet...
...isolating the country and its capital city, Kathmandu, from all but the most intrepid pilgrims, traders and explorers. The Valley of Nepal, where Kathmandu is located, is guarded to the south towards India by the 7-10,000 foot Mahabharat Lekh range the Nepalese "foothills." To the north towards Tibet, the valley is bordered by the towering Himalayas. But this month the country is opening up to an lnvasion of several thousand tourists to witness the coronation, of King Birendra Bir Bikrum Shah Dev, a former special student in Government at Harvard...
...worst effects of the quake centered on a 70-mile belt of the Karakoram Highway, which was built with the aid of the Chinese along the old silk route linking Tibet and Kashmir. "When the quake started at dusk, I was saying my prayers with five other policemen in the police-station mosque," recalled Constable Mian Zar of the village of Pattan. "Suddenly, the whole building started shaking and the roof collapsed. Three of my colleagues were killed...
Italy has 180,000 postal workers, about the same number in proportion to population as the U.S. But too many are deskbound and inefficient. As Paris' Le Monde recently observed in an editorial, "Italy is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communicate through a postal service." Le Monde's slur was unfair-to Tibet, which can get an airmail letter to New York by yak, truck and plane a week faster than young Getty's ear reached Rome...