Word: border
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even when Soviet troops in Prague cut off telephone and Teletype communications, TIME'S files got through. Office drivers turned couriers raced to convenient border points to pick up copy from correspondents. In New York, those files were combined with voluminous re ports coming in from TIME'S Washington Bureau for the cover story and other articles written by Howard Muson and David Tinnin, and edited by Jason McManus...
Ursula Nadasdy, the other cover researcher, was born in Budapest. She was only 13 when the Russians invaded Hungary in 1956 and her family tried to escape. The first time, they were caught only 500 yards from the Austrian border and jailed for three days. As soon as they were freed, the Nadasdys tried again. They slithered across a heavily patrolled highway on their bellies and managed to join friends and relatives in Vienna in time for Christmas. "When the revolution began," Ursula remembers, "Hungarians stopped complaining about the hardships of daily life. There really was a taste of freedom...
...Democratic side, Humphrey has also benefited from strong Deep South and Border support in his pre-convention campaign. Of the 16 states' 745 convention votes, Humphrey will probably get more than 600 of 1,312 needed for nomination. His new-found favor with Southern Democrats, after years of being disliked and distrusted by them, has two major reasons. After Johnson withdrew from the race, Humphrey seemed the most trustworthy and stable of the possible candidates, particularly in comparison with Robert Kennedy, who was feared and hated in the South. Also, the Democratic leadership in most Southern states has grown...
...country road a few miles away, relief workers held out bits of food to a group of hungry children. They ran, not knowing what to do with it. "We are going to have to teach a generation of children how to eat again," said a Canadian nurse. In the border town of Ikot Ekpene, the emaciated bodies of a brother and sister lay side by side in a rough cradle. Their eyes had been pecked out by vultures still circling overhead, waiting to attack a line of wasted bodies in a ditch outside of town...
...that will enable each country to draw on the other's investment capital, labor pool and special industrial talents. There were some signs, most notably new attacks in the Soviet press against Dubcek's programs and the resumption of Warsaw Pact maneuvers along Czechoslovakia's northern border, that the Soviets had started a fresh buildup of pressure. But as a successful host, Dubcek was recruiting the sort of support from his sympathetic guests that might make it more difficult than ever for the Soviets to use the threat of force to bring the liberals in Prague...