Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Great Expectations. Hamilton had worked hard-and fruitlessly-at tidying up the administrative mess that has long persisted in the agency. He lost face on the New Frontier when Congress slashed the President's $5 billion foreign aid request to $3.9 billion. Hamilton emerged frustrated-but in that he was in complete company with his predecessors in what has become known as "the most thankless job in Washington...
...Bums & Beggars." Within the Kennedy Administration, a process of rethinking the ends and means of foreign aid is under way. The inevitable New Frontier "task force" has been appointed, and among its basic texts is a tough-minded article by the University of Chicago's Professor Hans Morgenthau in the June issue of the American Political Science Review...
...gold dust and bank notes for national defense. Most welcome gift of all was the news that India's army, for the first time since the Red Chinese breakthrough on the border last month, in a small way had gone on the offensive. In NEFA (North East Frontier Agency), an Indian patrol raided a Chinese strongpoint near Towang. killed a number of Communist troops and returned to its lines without loss. A heavier attack was mounted outside Walong where, after an artillery barrage, 1,000 Indian jawans (G.I.s) stormed into "the forward slopes of the Chinese position in spite...
...Chinese thrust came after a ten-day lull in the fighting and was apparently aimed at driving down the Luhit River valley toward India's important oil fields at Digboi, 90 miles from Walong, in the North East Frontier Agency. The Chinese seized a mountain slope above Walong, but Indian troops "went into an attack and cleared this position, throwing back the Chinese aggressors...
...evident at week's end that more than strong words were needed to stop the Chinese. At Ladakh, on the western end of the 2,500-mile frontier, Chinese troops outflanked Indian defenders and forced the evacuation of the key military post guarding the entrance to Karakoram Pass. The Chinese moved in tanks and were massing supplies, presumably to seize Chushul airfield which, at 14,000 ft., is one of the world's highest. India's response was to airlift light tanks to Chushul, since, if the airfield falls to the Chinese, all of Ladakh may have...