Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sandwiched between India and Tibet and ringed about by the towering Himalayas, Nepal long was as remote as a country could get. Underneath its hibiscus and gardenia blossoms, its whitewashed stupas and tinkling bells, its 8,500,000 people were among the most backward in Southeast Asia, beset by malaria, illiteracy and preyed upon by landlords and moneylenders. In 1951 a revolution backed by India toppled the ruling Rana family, who for a hundred years had kept successive Kings virtual prisoners, and King Tribhuvan was restored to power. When the ailing Tribhuvan died in 1955, rule passed to his young...
...correct relations with Neutralist Souvanna but made no secret of its private preference for anti-Communist Phoumi, quickly offered its support. A State Department spokesman warned that aggression against Laos from Communist North Viet Nam could bring both Thailand and South Viet Nam to the rescue and start a Southeast Asian war. But even without overt aggression, Boun Oum and Phoumi faced bitter days ahead. Though Phoumi declared that all he wanted was "a neutral Laos," the Communists were smarting for revenge, and from the Pathet Lao came an order of the day: "Develop guerrilla warfare powerfully. Destroy supply lines...
...Wormwood" is none other than General Charles de Gaulle.* "Duff," of course, is Lady Diana's husband, who died as Lord Norwich in 1954 but who, during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk, and at the embassy piano listening to "Ernie" Bevin sing cockney ballads. It is by a thousand such little cinema frame snippets that Lady Diana's book gains value as a personal portrait...
After losing 14 Ibs. in a sleep-little month, Laos' jungle doctor, Thomas A. Dooley, visited Hong Kong to talk about a new Southeast Asian hospital program, soon was in a hospital himself with an initial diagnosis of "sheer exhaustion." Because Dooley was operated on for chest cancer last year, doctors were clearly worried by his weight loss and run-down condition. But from his bed, Tom Dooley, 33, offered his own wry diagnosis: "I would call...
...hospitals are understaffed, and U.S. medical schools cannot turn out graduates quickly enough to fill the internships and residencies open (TIME, June 20). Moreover, some of the 9,500 foreign physicians now in U.S. hospitals came here on Government-sponsored cultural-exchange programs from strategically sensitive areas like Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The State Department warned last week that packing them home "could present us with an embarrassing foreign-policy problem...