Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purge did not take place, and the King found other interests. He disliked formalities, pleased his subjects by driving through the streets unguarded, in the evenings dropped in on commoner friends without ceremony. He toured frontier villages, listened with tears in his eyes to refugees' stories, told them that his palace was always open to them. His gestures were sometimes generous but misguided. He presented a royal tract to a Bedouin tribe, only to discover the land was already occupied by several hundred Palestinian refugees. What ideas he had were more grandiose than practical. He wanted Jordan, which...
...charge. In his negotiations with the British, he did not even bother to keep Prime Minister Rifai informed. He sent Major General Radi Innab (whom he installed as Legion commander to replace Glubb) to negotiate an agreement with Syria to regard their borders with Israel as "one military frontier" in case of Israeli attack. Last week Hussein persuaded Whitehall to leave many of the Legion's British officers as technicians and instructors. And Britain announced gruffly that it would renew its $25 million subsidy for the Legion...
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT: "The New Deal legislation of the thirties helped to provide a 'built-in' consumer demand that business could then work to satisfy . . . I hope this quarter-century will see a frank recognition that every new frontier in American progress has been, and will always be, opened up by the joint enterprise of business and government...
...militia. Lo recruited and trained, technically and ideologically, thousands of trusted party workers and intellectuals, at the same time purging the existing forces of doubtful elements. He soon fashioned an organization of some eight interlocking bureaus specializing in intelligence, counterespionage, personnel, economic defense (i.e., preventing strikes, collecting taxes), frontier defense, anti-guerrilla work, supervising forced labor camps and normal police duties. Total strength: approximately...
Many Komsomols bucked the bleak frontier job. Their complaints, leaking back to Moscow, deterred later volunteers. Last month Khrushchev conceded that "some husbandries were set up in a hurry and were not quite successful," admitted that the area lacked rainfall, was scourged by early frosts, the soil was saline, and that on some farms one out of every three workers was a bureaucrat. But Khrushchev stuck doggedly to his old line that the state farm was the solution to Russia's agricultural problem...