European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Timeless to Oraibi Tut Rynn Page in the can trios old Chokang is restored to worship now As Are most of the major tibetan monasteries closed and sometimes sacked during the 1966-76 cultural revolution. China s Radical Wrath followed n major 1959 revolt against peking. Tibetans regarded chinese As invaders and worse anti religious. Unconfirmed estimates say chinese suppression and famine Cost up to a million tibetan lives. Life has eased in Tibet. Monks jailed som limes tortured Ohen forced to abandon sanctuaries and marry Are trickling Back to the Moons cries. China is repairing the monastic a cereals Ihal once housed 110,000 lamas throughout Tibet and constituted Strong political Power i a backward Remote theocratic stale. Tourism More than at Tunam moves the chinese who Sec restored temples As a powerful draw. A Lew year a ago foreign visitors to Tibet numbered Only a Lew. Las year local officials say. 5.000 tourists visited. The figure May be 20,000 in 1986.eight of Tibet s major development projects Are aimed at tourism including two hotels with 1,200 Beds and oxygen cylinders for visitors temporarily felled by the sparse 12.000-foot Lhasa air. It s a Maimi commitment in a land once nearly Cut off from the outside world and now Only served by one major Airport and a few Mountain roads. Every Boll la of Beer consumed in Lhasa is trucked laboriously rom the inferior of China. Chinese and tibetans agree on the Younst influx though reasons May differ. Both Welcome the development and Money and easing of tension. We Welcome the foreigners Saij one tibetan glancing at a chinese nearby. We Lael safer with lots of visitors a tibetan woman left carries water in her Back la one of the thou Tond or More Roami in the potato Palace now maintained at a motor cultural file a family from Kharn in Eastern Tibet Pote lop with their prize Pone Sion a chinese made a Ariette Lapo player following a Day of work in the Fields near Gantse youngsters dance and sing under the Gaie of Viila Geri above. The stars and stripes Page 15 uary3, 1968
