Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take René Dupuis, the 25-year-old engineer who drove me from Langson to the fort of Dongdang, on Viet Nam's northeast frontier. "I like it out here," said Dupuis. "It's adventure, I feel I'm useful, and I like the Vietnamese." His rifle was propped against the seat beside him. Every mile along the road a French fortress of brick and bamboo dominated the countryside. Between them we passed patrols of bearded men, four or five in a group, wearing jungle-green uniforms and broad-brimmed, shapeless felt hats, snaking in single file...
...military coup ended Vargas' 15-year regime, and the old man withdrew in good order to his ranch near the Uruguayan frontier at Itu. There he got into cowboy breeches and boots, and ostensibly retired from politics. Even after São Paulo's bumptious Governor Adhemar de Barros named him for a presidential comeback (TIME, June 26), Getulio sat on quietly at Itu. As election day (Oct. 3) got closer, the hottest Brazilian political question was whether Getulio still had his old magic, and whether he cared to practice it. Last week Brazilians found...
...architects,* Sir Gladwyn had just taken over from Sir Alexander Cadogan as chief British delegate. Said he: "No amount of photographs of Mr. Dulles in a trench-and I only wish there had been more trenches-no suggestion that he himself first rushed across the frontier, no repetition of arguments which a child could refute . . . can obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean troops who, in large numbers and heavily armed, crossed the frontier and overran the territory of a government which had been established by the United Nations...
...Korea has heightened political tension in Indo-China. The people, worried by Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Communist armies on their northern frontier, at first reacted to the invasion of South Korea with: "It might have been us." The swift and determined U.S. stand had brought them much encouragement, but later U.S. defeats brought doubt and fear again. Andre Laguerre, head of TIME'S Paris bureau, arrived in Saigon last fortnight, as Indo-China was caught in the grip of the wet monsoon, which had temporarily limited the scale of the civil war. Last week Laguerre cabled...
Tito's Yugoslavia last week accused Stalin's Bulgaria of sending armed patrols across the frontier three times in one day. Shots were exchanged and a Bulgarian soldier was killed on Yugoslav territory...