Word: border
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...graduated income tax and obtained passage of one of the nation's toughest state antipollution laws. He also won repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings of more than five units, but Agnew later said he might even favor "total open housing...
...assumption that Wallace will damage Nixon in the South and Humphrey in the North may be at least partly wrong. In Southern and Border states, he does threaten Nixon. A late Wallace surge could give the Alabamian five more states?the Carolinas, Tennessee, Florida and Arkansas ?and swell his electoral vote to 91. Or it could siphon enough votes away from Nixon to enable Humphrey to eke out a few unexpected victories. In the North, Wallace is cutting into the normally Democratic blue-collar wards. But a substantial number of those votes might have gone to Nixon this year...
...lesson of Czechoslovakia is that the Soviet leaders do not operate from ideology or stated principles unless it serves their political purpose to do so. What was involved in Czechoslovakia was an expression of Russian nationalism and military power. Feeling endangered by a political threat and an unsafe border, the Soviets elected to violate their own principle of nonintervention. They thus prejudiced their position as world leader of Communism in order to secure the territorial integrity of what they must consider their European empire. Peter the Great would have done the same...
...into bivouac areas in the suburbs and countryside. Many Czechoslovaks feared that no matter how much they bent to Soviet will, some Red Army units would remain in the country. That fear was buttressed by the fact that seven Soviet divisions already were digging in along the West German border and emplacing tactical missiles...
...replacements are of higher quality than ever before; they have evidently come from training units long held back in the safety of the North. The Communist supply lines and communications network have been improved enormously by feverish labor on the roads and trails through Laos, Cambodia and the underpopulated border provinces of South Viet Nam. Viet Cong terrorists recently murdered 476 civilians in two weeks, more than in any other fortnight this year...