Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infantry Regiment, and the British and French account for the rest of an Allied garrison of about 11,000 troops. To supply them, the U.S. runs two to three convoys per week-three to ten trucks in each convoy-over the 110-mile, four-lane Autobahn between the border check point of Helmstedt, and Berlin (see map). The British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over the road monthly, plus...
...Zambesi River, forming the border between the two Rhodesias, the entire African work force of 6,600 at the great Kariba Dam (TIME, Dec. 15) went out on strike. Southern Rhodesia, otherwise least affected by trouble because its Africans have always been the least militant, was determined to set an example of toughness for its neighbors. Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead mobilized the white population, slapped a strict censorship on the press, and declared a state of emergency; in one 2 a.m. roundup, his cops grabbed 250 members of the African National Congress and stuck them in jail, incommunicado...
...gone to unprecedented lengths to soothe his country's bitter quarrel with India. He has stilled the strident propaganda of the country's radios, last month became the first Pakistani leader to attend the Indian High Commission's Republic Day celebration in Karachi. After a recent border incident he said mildly: "If our chaps are at fault, we will take action against them...
...strategy and training. The expedition leaders have been picked. But since hitting the beaches in Trujillo's well-armed police state could prove suicidal, the invaders would like to slip in through underarmed Haiti and set up guerrilla operations in the rugged mountains along the Haitian-Dominican border...
...held public prayers for Communist North Viet Nam's "church of silence" (430,000 Catholics under Red rule), refugees from the north streamed into the city for a look at the Pope's emissary. To kindle morale where it is under great stress-along the smoldering Chinese border-Agaganian tirelessly inspected Catholic schools, hospitals, refugee camps, convents, seminaries and nurseries. Said a Vietnamese priest: "He has strengthened our determination to free our enslaved brethren in the north. Above all, we are now secure in the knowledge that Rome thinks .of us, no matter how small and unimportant...