Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack") Schramme and his band of white mercenaries are beginning to look a lot less tall. Not that the Congolese army is cutting them down to size; the swaggering "meres" could probably hang on for a while at Bukavu, the old resort town on the Congo's eastern frontier where they holed up three weeks ago. President Joseph Mobutu's regulars are bothering them so little that the only raiding that the mercenaries have been doing has been in Bukavu's abandoned wine cellars...
...added precaution, pilots have been ordered to make their bombing runs parallel to the frontier...
...NATO forces that will take 35,000 Americans out of West Germany. On its part, Bonn alarmed the Pentagon in July by reporting that budgetary troubles would force a reduction in the Bundeswehr of as many as 60,000 men, weakening NATO's defenses at the Eastern frontier...
When the U.S. was opening its frontier and beginning to build a national economy, Wells Fargo and Union Pacific earned a place in the country's history and legend. In existence as an independent nation for only 21 years, the Philippine Republic is still pushing back its own frontiers, and it has a carrier that is playing much the same part as the U.S. pioneers. It is Lusteveco (short for Luzon Stevedoring Co.), the biggest and fastest-growing commercial cargo handler in transportation-shy Southeast Asia...
Based in Manila, Lusteveco operates both on land and sea, and its frontier is formidable. Half of the country's 38,000 miles of roadway is ordinarily undrivable. Its waterways, which are more important than the land routes, trace a hazardous course among 7,000 islands ranging from Luzon in the typhoon-tossed north to Mindanao, 1,100 miles to the south where the seas are placid-except for roving Moro pirates...