Word: border
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grudgingly admitted that Ho Chi Minh was "the only truly national leader that Viet Nam has produced in modern times," but over the question of partition of Viet Nam, you conveniently forgot the 1954 Geneva agreement on Viet Nam. This agreement stipulated that Viet Nam-from the China border to the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula-was one country, that the question of reunification of Viet Nam was to be decided by an election throughout Viet...
...story by London Evening News Correspondent Victor Louis, a Soviet citizen believed to have close ties to the K.G.B., the Soviet secret police. Louis hinted that Moscow, under the Brezhnev Doctrine, had not abandoned the possibility of intervention in China. Despite that report, the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border was reported quiet for the first time in months of almost daily incidents...
...Operation Intercept got under way, U.S. border guards and customs officers fanned out across the porous 2,500-mile Mexico border that large quantities of illegal drugs cross on their way to the U.S. Officers and trained hounds searched automobile glove compartments and trunks, children's dolls and hollow surfboards, northbound traffic was slowed for miles on Mexico's routes 2 and 15. Other agents were at the ready in Coast Guard ships, fast cars, helicopters and high-speed pursuit planes to cut off smugglers at any available pass. Eventually the U.S. hopes to encourage Mexican agents...
...will drive prices sky-high and effectively take it out of the hands of 90% of the kids," says Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Last year alone, U.S. officials estimate, 1,200 tons of marijuana were brought across the Mexican line. Only 70,210 Ibs. were detected. Also, the border leaked 20% of the heroin used in the U.S., refined from Mexican Amapola, the poppy, and an unknown amount of U.S.-made drugs such as amphetamines, which can be bought without prescription in Mexico...
...Mexico, the Mexican government has been reluctant to beef up its unsophisticated mini-force of 40 drug agents, who are so poorly paid that they are easy prey to the Mexican ethos of mordida (the bite, or payoff). Operation Intercept may discourage the amateurs who smuggle hemp across the border on major highways. It will probably have little effect on the professionals who dominate the trade. As a knowledgeable Texas border scout points out, "There are areas out there where a small army could cross without detection...