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Mexico has never forgiven the U.S. for a little piece of Yanqui land chiseling. Back in the mid-1800s, the unpredictable course of the Rio Grande shifted southward at El Paso, leaving a 600-acre wedge of flat, sandy Mexican land stranded on the Texas side (see map). Mexico still claimed the land, known as El Chamizal, but the U.S. said no: the border runs where the Rio Grande runs. In 1911, the angry Chamizal dispute was put to international arbitration. The arbitrators sided with
Blood at the Border. Negro Haiti and the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic are the worst of neighbors even in the best of times. In the early 1800s, the sport of Haitian rulers was slaughtering Dominicans; in the 1930s, Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo methodically killed some 15,000 Haitian squatters on his land. Now Duvalier is getting in his licks. Dominican nationals in Haiti have been-jailed and savagely beaten; others have disappeared without a trace. One Dominican diplomat was murdered. The Haitian border has been closed to Dominicans for months, and there are persistent reports that members of the Trujillo...
...Steers. The sport that made Will Rogers a rodeo star originated with the vaqueros of Spanish Mexico, spread across the West in the mid-1800s. At first, trail-driving cowboys practiced the art on range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump...
...insecurity and a continuing hostility toward employers-the distant ''them'' from whom injustice may be expected as a matter of course. Nowhere is this hostility more obvious than in resistance to automation-a carryover from the Luddites, who ravaged the Midlands in the early 1800s destroying newfangled textile machinery. When London newspapers tried to introduce bundle-tying machines, they found themselves locked in a four-year dispute that ended only when they agreed to keep on all their human bundle-tyers along with the machines...
...courts will decide on the merits of claims and on dollar amounts. But beyond the courtroom looms the bigger question of how the U.S. proposes to accommodate itself to an ever noisier jet age. The first railroad trains scared the living daylights out of people; in the early 1800s, anti-railroad interests spread dark warnings among farmers that the trains made bulls impotent and dried up cows' udders. For the air age, the classic case was U.S. v. Causby (1946), in which the Supreme Court held that low-flying military aircraft had so badly disturbed barnyard life...