Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colorado. Incumbent John A. Carroll, undeviating supporter of New Frontier legislation, is running scared in a neck-and-neck race against Republican Congressman Peter H. Dominick...
...past three years, India's struggle with Red China over their disputed Himalayan border has been more of a shouting than a shooting match. But last week, in an isolated area of the North East Frontier Agency near the border of Chinese-held Tibet, Indian and Chinese frontier guards engaged in a mortar and grenade duel that resulted in 55 casualties -33 Chinese and 22 Indians. As usual, both sides claimed that the other was the aggressor. What was unusual was a new Indian toughness toward the Chinese...
Though India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was once willing to negotiate the frontier wrangle, he has now come to believe that compromise on his part would lead to new Chinese incursions. Recently, India curtly refused China's offer to arbitrate the border difference unless the Chinese first withdrew from the more than 14.000 square miles of Indian territory they occupy. Replied Peking: "No force in the world could oblige us to withdraw...
...Intensify Operations Against the Chinese Intruders." A tough, Sandhurst-educated antiCommunist, Kaul was placed on indefinite leave last August after he questioned Defense Minister Krishna Menon's appeasement policy toward Red China. Kaul's new assignment from Nehru: ''To free our territory in the northeast frontier." Said Nehru at week's end: India's forces are "strongly positioned and in a large number operating from higher ground than the Chinese...
...some cries of public outrage. "Distasteful'' and "disgusting," sniffed the proper to the polltakers; and though Gossip Dorothy Kilgallen soothed one righteous reader by explaining that "it was the sort of 'social' kiss customary in high society," she went on: "it's the New Frontier, so you've got to expect the members to make a few new rules. Maybe kissing the First Lady on TV indicates an even higher status than being pushed into the Attorney General's pool with your clothes...