Word: indians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Juliet died prematurely, after all. Romance has always included some degree of calculation. Indeed, the very notion of true love, according to many scholars, is a relatively recent invention; in most places, in most times, marriage has been a practical arrangement. Those who scoff at matrimonial ads in Indian papers may have few qualms about placing SWM notices in their local tabloids; a blind date is only an arranged marriage in potentia. If disease and collision liability have put a crimp in promiscuity, that may be all to the good. But just because love cannot be free, does it have...
...western train for 40 days. Bald Eagle, who intends to see the train out to the finish, dons his ceremonial regalia when the wagons enter some small towns. He dismisses the irony of a Native American traveling in a nostalgic procession of white folk, who were once fearful of Indian attack. "It's my way of letting the Indian people know it's best to cope with the modern world, to get busy, to do something," he says...
...once you venture beyond the expressways. Two miles south of the Badlands is a bleak crossroads called Interior (pop. 70), the site of LaVonne Green's seven-table WoodenKnife Drive- Inn. A South Dakota guidebook last year said Europeans recommend the place ) to their friends, especially for the Indian tacos, but Green, whose daughter is married to a Sioux, professes puzzlement at the transatlantic accolade. She is also mysterious about her secret fry-bread recipe, which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years has no one come to call at the WoodenKnife...
India was the first to deploy troops on the Siachen Glacier. In April 1984 the Indian army launched Operation Meghdoot (Cloud Messenger), placing forces at two key passes of the Saltoro Range, which runs along the Siachen Glacier's western edge toward the Chinese border. India says it was pre-empting a planned Pakistani move -- a contention Islamabad denies. The Indian advance captured nearly 1,000 sq. mi. of territory claimed by Pakistan; ever since then New Delhi has wanted to establish a formal boundary along that natural divide. The conflict escalated slowly as each side deployed more men, established...
...fearsome. In a month-long clash ending last May, soldiers battled intensely on a mountain and ridges near the Chumic Glacier. Both sides dispatched men in a furious race to an icy 21,300-ft.-high peak that commanded the area. "The secret in this terrain," says an Indian officer, "is to be the first on top." Seeing that the Indians would in fact get there first, the Pakistanis took a gamble: in howling winds they tied two soldiers to the runners of a helicopter for a seven-minute ride to the peak, not certain whether wind speed...