Word: border
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...smoked more grass than anyone you ever knew in your life." Kerouae bragged in a recent interview. "I came across the Mexican border one time with 21/2 pounds of grass around my waist in a silk scarf. I had one of those wide Mexican belts around me over it. I had a big bottle of tequila and I went up to the border guard and offered him some, and he said,'No, go on through, senior...
Ulbricht is unlikely to dismantle the Wall or allow closer contact with West Germany until he feels that East Germans will no longer be tempted by better jobs and living conditions across the border. Now 76, Ulbricht might not be on the scene much longer, but the two men most likely to succeed him, Premier Willi Stoph, 55, and Deputy Party Chief Erich Honecker, 57, are likely to follow the same course. Yet neither Ulbricht nor his heirs can overlook the fact that some day perhaps the Soviets and other East Bloc comrades may become weary of allowing East Germany...
...Treasury agents, aircraft and Coast Guard boats that have been swarming on, over and around the 2,500-mile border since September 21 made only 500 arrests and seized just two tons of marijuana by the end of last week. Yet, if the crackdown did temporarily reduce the annual 1,200-ton flow of "grass" from south of the border -presumably because the serious smugglers just sat it out-it also reduced U.S.-Mexican relations to one of the lowest points in years...
...Carrillo Flores personally complained to Secretary of State William Rogers by telephone, U.S. and Mexican representatives announced in Washington that Operation Intercept had been replaced by "Operation Cooperation." The U.S., said a terse communiqué, would "adjust" customs procedures to cut out "inconvenience, delay and irritation"-meaning that the border inspections would be eased. In two weeks, talks are to begin in Mexico City on a joint antidrug effort. U.S. officials are calling that a victory, but it has the ring of a bugout too. The latest goal, as State spokesmen explain it, is a gradual "Mexicanization...
...state legislature passed the law, and 285 Massachusetts towns have since created conservation commissions. Both the state and federal governments have also put up matching funds that help the commissions buy land for public use. One result: all of the spectacular estuarine marshes from the New Hampshire border to Gloucester have been saved...