Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buffer states on all its borders. With luck the Chinese could hope to topple Phoui's government and force a more sympathetic regime into power; more modestly, they could almost certainly count on occupying Laos' northern provinces, thus creating a "sanitized" zone on China's southern frontier...
...royal Laotian army, 100 home guards and 25 counter-guerrillas who are called maquis by French-educated Laotians. For 25 miles along the western bank of the Nam Ma river, there were similar garrisons under the control of battalion headquarters at Muong Het. eight miles from the Vietnamese frontier. And they were backed up by six other battalions which had been rushed to the defense of Samneua province...
...Quite Clear." Only days before, said Nehru, 38 Indian soldiers had fought with 300 Chinese invaders and barely escaped encirclement. An Indian plane had tried to drop munitions to the surrounded men but failed. That incident had occurred at Longju in India's North-East Frontier Agency (popularly called NEFA). It was not the first one. A thousand miles to the west, in the Ladakh district of Kashmir, Chinese Communists have repeatedly ambushed and captured isolated Indian patrols, said Nehru. As recently as July an Indian detachment (an officer and five men) was taken prisoner by Chinese troops that...
...cynical attitude toward India, combined with the hard realities of Communism at home as experienced in Kerala, is forcing on this country an 'agonizing reappraisal' of fundamentals in our foreign policy," said the Indian Express. The Hindustan Times called for a radar screen along the northern frontier...
Though still speaking softly, Nehru was moving at last with some purpose. At week's end army sources said that regular Indian regiments are on the way to man all the border separating Tibet from India's North-East Frontier Agency and will take over the defense of the region from the civilian Assam Rifles. Red Chinese troops are said to be still in control of the Longju checkpoint, four miles inside India. They will be asked to withdraw peacefully. Suppose they refuse? An army spokesman answered: "Then the Indian army will strive to push them...