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Socialist leaders called Otto's projected return a "provocation" that threatened Austria's precarious neutral position as a buffer between East and West...
...foxholes and trenches now well ensconced in olive groves, Jew and Arab stare bitterly at one another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes and rusting "DANGER" signs...
...Group on Educational Strategy." Chosen by state legislatures, its 50-odd members would develop education "guidelines" on a national basis and persuade state lawmakers to adopt them. Chairman of the group would be a newly created U.S. Secretary of Education with Cabinet standing. The Secretary would serve as a buffer between the states and Congress, which in turn would appropriate federal funds for state spending on his recommendation...
...conclusion that the planet's surface temperature must be at least 600 °F., which is about as hot as molten lead and much too hot for earth-type life. But they may have been fooling themselves. The earth's strong magnetic field acts as a buffer that deflects most cosmic rays. If Venus has little or no magnetism, the rays must hit the top of its atmosphere, perhaps creating an ionized layer that looks hot when examined by earth's radio telescopes. Under this layer (if it exists) and under the Venusian clouds, the planet...
Initialed Map. Under the British raj, London played what Lord Curzon called "the great game." Its object was to protect India's northern borders from Russia by fostering semi-independent buffer states like Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. In those palmy colonial days, Tibet was militarily insignificant, and China, which claims overlordship of Tibet, was usually too weak to exercise...