Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieved a stoppage in the fighting within 24 hours (see below). Though Hammarskjold himself was characteristically uninformative in public, Cairo reported that he won Nasser's agreement to a plan for reducing border tensions, mainly by creating a buffer zone extending 550 yards on either side of the frontier, within which U.N. military representatives would patrol. Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion had turned down such an idea of Nasser's before, but now was reported agreeable. From Ben-Gurion, Hammarskjold next wanted a written pledge that no troops would be ordered across Israel's frontiers...
...Surrender, Donkeys." The raid was the deadliest of many launched last week by fedayeen irregulars as Egypt and Israel verged on war across the tensest frontier in the world. Nine Jews were killed, more than 50 were injured in some 30 reported attacks. The raiders, mainly Palestinian Arabs recruited from the Gaza border camps (and not technically in the Egyptian army), struck hardest in the coastal plain, always at night. No citizen of the tiny republic was safe from the "Nights of Horror," as Cairo's newspaper Al Akh-bar jubilantly headlined the raids, and never...
...they had on many another routine patrol before. But this time the patrol, pinned down in a gully, lost three men before Israeli artillery counterfire released them, and the bitter reflex of reprisals began. The Israelis shelled an Egyptian village, the Egyptians replied with mortars on four Israeli frontier settlements, the Israelis retaliated by a heavy shelling of the crowded Egyptian city of Gaza. Before the U.N. Commission could get a ceasefire, 55 civilians in Gaza had died under Israeli shells. Israeli losses: four soldiers killed, four civilians wounded...
Among the tribes that jealously rule the steep hills flanking the Assam Valley on India's strategic northeast frontier, none are so colorfully and fiercely independent as the Nagas. Nearly half a century of British law and the influence of U.S. Baptist missionaries have moderated their fondness for lopping off neighbors' heads, but the Nagas have never swerved from their desire to be King of the Mountains. After the British pulled out of India, the Indian government offered the Nagas tribal autonomy under New Delhi. Replied a Naga spokesman: "White man was never king over us. Now black...
...General Federation of Labor (Histadrut), there were no ringing calls to arms in the labor leaders' speeches. "I prefer even this miserable peace to either war or victory," said one delegate. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, himself just back from a day of stringing barbed wire along the Egyptian frontier, told the delegates: "We would rather have less water from the Jordan and an agreement with our neighbors," referring to one of the principal items of Arab-Israeli contention, "than more water and no agreement." He promised that the Arabs had "a little more time" to reach a compromise...