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Shortly after last week's cease-fire went into effect, Communist China accused India of still another act of "aggression" at Natu Pass, high in the Himalayas above Sikkim. The Chinese charged that a group of Indian soldiers had occupied "three aggressive military works" on the boundary and confronted Chinese frontier guards for 2½ hours. Actually, the soldiers were merely escorting four visiting journalists, among them TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. His report...
...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...
China's charges relate to two 14,000ft. mountain passes, Natu and Jelep, that lead to Tibet's Chumbi Valley. In this bleak terrain, swept by chill north winds, Peking claims the Indians have built "56 military structures," ranging from concrete gun positions to entrenchments, on China's soil. India concedes it has fortified the passes but insists the fortifications are on Sikkimese territory...
...palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union and a bustling, year-round center of industry, commerce and building...
...time the drinks have arrived Sam and George have hit on a hobby -brushing up Sam's American history. As the series continues, Sam and George meet at Sam's house, at George's shack in the woods (this mail-order shelter quite natu rally sets them talking about the pioneer log cabin), and gradually they trace the rise of the Republic to world power and world responsibilities. A specially prepared history atlas of 17 maps is available to listeners...