70 Year Magazine Archive

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The Dalai Lama will not be coming to the United States in the near future. Reason: State Department officials agree with Southeast Asia leaders his value as an anti-Communist resistance symbol would be lessened by coming under the American umbrella…. A New York publisher interested in securing rights to the Dalai Lama’s own story of his heroic three-hundred-mile trek to freedom. Proceeds to go to the newly formed Committee for Aid to Tibetan Refugees…. The following classified advertisement appearing in the college dailies: “American volunteers are trained for infiltration into Tibet. Contact John Blackmore, University of California, Berkeley.”… Taiwan sources estimate more than 4,000 rebels were killed in Sinkiang province last March when Chinese guerrillas attempted to link up with Tibetan freedom fighters.

Republican congressional leaders encouraged about prospects for 1960. They say more precinct level work is being done than at any time in twenty years…. New England GOP workers disagree. They report Young Republican groups largely inactive Linus Pauling, in a speech last week, estimated the U.S. had 75,000 nuclear weapons—by far the highest estimate yet. The figure, totally unconfirmed, will probably appear shortly in releases of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and other collaborationist groups.

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