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They were on subway trains from Queens and Brooklyn. They were on cars and trains from Connecticut and other parts of upstate New York. Some of them had journeyed the day before on the cheap China Town buses from Boston and Washington, D.C.

THE TIBETAN refugees are one of the most resilient and successful refugee groups in the world. Secluded as they were for several centuries in the "roof of the world" with hardly any contact with other societies and cultures

China'sambassador to the UK will be quizzed on his country's poor human rights record when he visits Glasgow later this month. Zha Peixin is due in the city in a fortnight for the launch of a major art exhibition - One Million Days In China - at the Burrell Collection.

Karma Tsomo will combine Tibetan traditions with her new American life as she celebrates the Fourth of July today with her family. Her menu includes hot dogs, a favorite with her teenage daughters, and momo, tasty little dumplings filled with meat or vegetables.

Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Paris celebrated the 69th Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday at the Pogoda, Bois de Vincenne, the vast city garden which is the usual venue of big Tibetan events.

Nepal has asked the neighbouring communist republic founded by Mao Zedong for help in putting down a rebellion by leftists who call themselves Maoists.

For the first time in history, the famous Blue Beryll - a set of 79 medical paintings completed 300 years ago in Tibet - has been recreated, brought to the West, and will be on exhibit TIME-TIME July 23rd at Tibet House, 22 West 15th Street.

For two years after Lin Yiqin was sent to eastern Tibet's Nyingtri country as the prefecture's Communist party deputy secretary, he suffered chronic stomach problems.

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will not take part in an international culture festival in Spain because his doctors have advised him to rest after a punishing travel schedule.

Panchsheel, an agreement for mutual co-existence between India and China, was Nehru's brain child. It encapsulated the Indian Prime Minister's vision of a united and properous future for the newly-colonized nations of the Third World.