China’s railway line drives towards Tibet
Riding in a luxury railcar fitted with oxygen bottles and the comforts of sleeping berths, armchairs and television, China’s communist leaders are turning up to survey their boldest engineering work, a railway into Tibet.
1965 war: The Chinese bluff
Two important factors triggered the 1965 conflict with Pakistan. The first one was the visit to India of US Assistant Secretary of State Averell Harriman and British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations Duncan Sandys on November 22, 1962.
Seeking the path to peace
A throng poured into The University of Texas at Austin’s Frank Erwin Center Sept. 20 with one goal, to be in the presence of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.