Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to leaflets distributed in Peking, Mao Tse-tung alerted frontier troops, warning them that the Soviet Union was reinforcing its military strength along the Chinese border for possible anti-Chinese moves. The contempt with which each side now regards the other was nowhere better illustrated than along the Sino-Soviet border in Sinkiang province. There, according to a Japanese correspondent who recently visited the region, Chinese border troops insulted the "revisionists" by hauling down their trousers and flaunting their backsides at the Soviets across the frontier. The Chinese "provocation" ceased when the Russians held up a portrait...
...route to Hanoi to help the North Vietnamese war effort. Finally, if reports from Eastern European diplomats were to be believed, Russia began moving out of the line in Eastern Europe some 50,000 troops, transporting them by train across Poland to bolster Soviet defenses along the Chinese frontier...
...history of mankind's progress, the conquest of space symbolizes one of man's oldest, most basic drives: the hunger for knowledge, the lure of every new frontier, the challenge of the impossible. And that is the legacy left behind by Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee- just as it was by men like Marco Polo, Magellan, Charles A. Lindbergh and Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic memorial bears an inscription from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
...REPORTS: THE FARTHEST FRONTIER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt reports on the promise and problems involved in the use of the new drugs that twist and untwist minds. Originally scheduled for Jan. 10, "Frontier's time was pre-empted by the President's State of the Union address. In coming weeks, check your educational TV stations...
Asia. Already combatting Communist terrorism on its remote northeastern frontier, Thailand announced that it would soon become the sixth fighting ally of the U.S. in Viet Nam.* It has already begun to gather the 1,000-man combat battalion of Royal Thai army volunteers who will enter the Viet Nam fray sometime within the next six months. At the same time, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman admitted that Thailand has been "allowing U.S. troops to utilize our military installations and facilities...