Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazil's suave Oswaldo Aranha, and announced that Czechoslovakia did not choose to run. Gromyko said that the Ukraine would be a candidate instead. Latin American delegates then agreed to support the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky. This did not indicate any love of Russia south of the border (see LATIN AMERICA). The Latins assumed that the U.S. was willing to see the Security Council go on voting 9 to 2. In any case, the stumbling block was Russia's veto, which it could exercise without...
...Orphans. A witness who had seen the Punjab border between Pakistan and India testified...
...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...
Along the borders of Palestine the Arab threat did not materialize immediately. Associated Pressman Joseph Goodwin flew out on a 300-mile scouting trip, reported: "Unless they were hiding in caves or camouflaged as camels, there were not 1,000 troops within 20 miles on either side of the border, from the Mediterranean to the Dead...
Nevertheless, reports of troop movements increased. This week Palestine watchers said they saw Syrian Arabs, some with armored cars, pitching camp across the border. An "alert" had been sent to Haganah. Somebody (police thought the Arab underground organization, Jihad) tossed a bomb into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem...