Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur had ever disobeyed a directive. Bradley and Marshall had said no. Said General Collins: "There was one specific incident that did occur . . . one of the instructions that the Joint Chiefs had issued to General MacArthur was that he would not use anything but Korean troops on the [Yalu] frontier, and he did not comply with that. He sent American forces directly to the frontier without advising us ahead of time on it, and when we asked him, challenging his doing this, he said that he did it because of military necessity...
...latitude of this week's fighting, the Chinese are cramped and the allied line is protected at both ends by the sea. Above the waist, where the peninsula widens out toward the 700-mile frontier line, the Chinese would have plenty of room and Van Fleet would not have enough men. If the Chinese decide to move north, the U.N. forces would be sentenced to an indefinite and costly stalemate...
...Greece, as in Korea, the enemy struck from a sanctuary to the north. In Greece, the Red forces could escape across the frontier to Russian satellites to rest, regroup and get new supplies; in Korea, the Chinese Reds are using Manchuria in the same way. In Korea, Van Fleet is picking up where he left off in Greece-fighting other, much more numerous enemy contingents in the same global conflict. The enemy face is now Mongolian instead of Mediterranean-but it is familiar...
...wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family. Tito's Yugoslavia separates Albania from Communist Bulgaria and the other Russian satellites. This makes it hard for Russia to run the country...
...around the perennial shortage of rain. Last week in El Paso, young (30) Dr. Peter Duisberg, agricultural chemist from New Mexico A. & M., reported to the Southwestern Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that desert research might well be "opening up a new agricultural frontier." He was ready to name scores of plants that need almost no water and might be converted into products varying all the way from varnish to broomstraws...