Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settled down to tackle the prickly questions of armistice frontiers, withdrawals and reduction of their armies in the Negeb desert. To give the Egyptians a prod, the Israelis announced that they were already holding armistice talks with the Lebanese, and were giving up control of Lebanese villages across the border...
Under heaviest fire have been those priests in whom the shrewd Communists recognized the qualities of leadership which could-make their fight easier. One such priest on their list was Father Boldizsar Koczan, of busy Szombathely (pop. 45,000), only seven miles from the Austrian border...
...next day, members of Father Koczan's congregation pleaded with him to escape. The night before the Friday deadline he slipped across the border into Austria. Unable to stomach a Communist-ruled clergy, he was headed back for Cleveland. Last week in Vienna, 48-year-old Father Koczan recalled the scene in the Red headquarters. He said: "I left without committing myself. If I were younger and healthier, I'd have resisted right there. But I would never have survived...
...undeclared war in Kashmir was over. Last week Indians and Pakistanis were able to boast of the world's best kept ceasefire. Under the truce terms, the question of which dominion will rule the border state would be settled by a plebiscite, under a United Nations administrator...
...victorious Rhee government has proved little better than the tottering regime of Chiang Kai-shek. Grafting and inefficient, it has adopted police methods which border on "thought-control." Leftwing and labor groups are constantly threatened with persecution...