Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambience in Danger. Because such crimes occurred in supposedly "safe" neighborhoods, because of the victims' renown and the criminals' audacity, affluent Washingtonians feel like the terrorized citizenry in an outlaw-ruled old-frontier town. So many people refuse to stay out late that the National Theater has moved up its curtain time one hour to 7:30 p.m. No longer is it necessary to reserve a table for dinner at a fashionable downtown restaurant...
...least the equivalent of a battalion of men were engaged on either side, and armor, artillery, mortars and heavy machine guns were employed before the battle was over. The Russians claim that 31 Soviet border guards were killed and 14 wounded; the Chinese casualties are unknown. Along any other frontier in the world, the scale of the battle would almost certainly have caused large-scale mobilization...
When morning dawned, 30 armed Chinese appeared on the river bank and crossed over to the island in full view of the Soviet border guards watching from their side of the frontier. That kind of mild intrusion had happened so frequently that the Soviet response was almost a drill routine. The Russian station commander for the area, Senior Lieutenant Strelnikov, took seven of his men and walked out to meet the Chinese. He intended, says Moscow, to protest their intrusion on Soviet territory and ask them to leave. He never got the chance. As the two groups neared each other...
...been virtually nonexistent since 1963. Some trade still continues, but a recent Soviet survey reports that current two-way trade, estimated in 1967 to be $106 million, is less than 6% of 1961 levels. Given the steady disintegration of the once solid partnership of the two Communist giants, the frontier clashes-and last week's explosion-became inevitable...
...intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories. Then, just a year ago, the soldier-farmers of Nahal, an acronym in Hebrew meaning "pioneering fighting youth," were dispatched to Kallia. Their mission: to protect Kallia and its portion of the frontier facing Jordan-and to make the desert bloom for Israel...