Weekly Wire Weekly Alibi Climb Every Mountain  Seven Years in
Tibet  By Devin D. O'Leary  OCTOBER 13, 1997:  Every couple
years, Hollywood grafts itself to some cause célèbre with an
almost religious fervor. What with the publicity surrounding
Seven Years In Tibet, the upcoming release of Martin Scorsese's
Kundun and Steven Seagal being anointed as a high holy man, I
think we can safely peg down "Tibet" as this year's cause.  For
those who don't know, Tibet was savagely annexed by China in
1959. The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India as uprisings were being
crushed and borders were being closed. According to reports by
the International Campaign for Tibet, more than 6,000
monasteries and temples have been destroyed, and some 1.2
million Tibetans have died under Chinese oppression. Tibet's
greatest enemy, though, may have been its strict isolationist
policy. When China ran roughshod over the Himalayan nation back
in the 1950s, the world took no notice. Today, the Tibetan
people are trying to reverse that trend by b