Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...
...himself, he can expect "international help"-meaning from Red army troops. Dubček hardly seemed prepared to acknowledge any of this, but he did throw a pacifier Moscow's way. His party Presidium, replying to a harsh Soviet note, rigorously denied charges that the country's frontier with West Germany was inadequately defended. But the Czechoslovaks agreed to transfer Lieut. General Václav Prchlik from his party post as chief of security for the army back to strictly military duties. The Russians had accused Prchlik, who recently demanded revisions in the Warsaw Pact command, of leaking...
...over the roads in East Germany, most of them headed southward toward the Czechoslovak border. The Kremlin announced a two-week series of maneuvers by supply and repair units of the Red army from Riga on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black Sea and, of course, along the frontier with Slovakia. The Russians also launched nationwide antiair craft exercises under the code name Operation Skyshield...
...mutual pullback." North Vietnamese forces move back toward the frontier, U.S. troops to the populated areas. An international force from neu tral nations steps in and a cease-fire begins. As the North Vietnamese fall back, the U.S. withdraws 75,000 troops as "a sure sign of good faith...
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...