Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest Negroes). Few dare even to mention his name in public, though in whispers they call him "Beautiful Murder." Seven months ago, 60 rebel soldiers plotted to oust him. For two weeks the Government did nothing. Then the plotters were sent to outposts at Pedernales (on the Haitian border), and at the town of Loma de Cabrera. When they had taken up their new posts, the conspirators were stabbed to death, a11 at the same time, on the same...
...Dominicans remember the butchering of 12,000 Haitians in 1937. But not all have heard of the speech Trujillo made afterwards in Santiago's town hall. "I faced the Haitian problem squarely," he boasted. "I went to the border and saw the thousands of Haitians on Dominican lands. I considered every way out, but I came to the conclusion that there was only one way-a general massacre...
Bearer's Scheme. Abbott's tax schedules are cunningly contrived to meet this border competition. But only in the lowest brackets are they below current U.S. rates (see box). Farther up the scale, they still take more from the pocket than does the U.S. Treasury...
Whatever the prospects of eventual union, in rationed Holland last week lean and shabby Dutch, once stout and well-dressed, were hoarding their 40 weekly cigarets, while across the border in Belgium men with money ate lobster, steaks, butter, and drank French wine. Many Dutch women still wore ski trousers and ski boots while their Brussels sisters chatted over their tea in chic comfort...
Found: in the rugged hills of the Indo-Burmese border near Imphal: the remains of Major General Orde Charles Wingate (the "Lawrence of Burma"), organizer of Wingate's Raiders, who died there in a 1944 plane crash...