Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent, the Soviets gloated over their new 20-year mutual assistance, friendship and cooperation treaty with Outer Mongolia, the pro-Soviet land on Red China's sensitive Sinkiang frontier. But this was not all. Now it was time for Moscow to greet still another Asian statesman-Etsusaburo Shiina, Japan's first foreign minister to come calling since the two countries renewed diplomatic relations...
Cambodia's tubby Prince Norodom Sihanouk was like a man trapped in a revolving door. At the Viet Nam border there was the U.S.'s 1st Air Cavalry, threatening to pursue the enemy across the Cambodian frontier (see South Viet Nam). To the west, Sihanouk's troops were trading sporadic fire with Thailand. And within the Prince's own uneasy kingdom, there was steadily mounting opposition to his erratic and autocratic rule...
...Mercy. Blaming the raids on both ex-Premier Thanh and Thailand, Sihanouk jailed scores of the ex-Premier's known friends and supporters and opened up with mortars and machine guns on the small Thai frontier village of Haadlek. "We have been armed, morally and militarily," Sihanouk warned, "to confront at all times and victoriously the attacks from these despicable mercenaries. We will show no mercy." Thailand denied the attacks, calling Cambodia's own action an attempt to "provoke us into an unwise incident. We will not be drawn into any foolish move...
...stripped to the bone by the howling winds of life, a man strides past another on a barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
...fixed in U.S. history as a two-fisted early Governor of New Mexico Territory, but this autobiography, dictated to a granddaughter and published for the first time some 72 years after his death, gives a grim but fascinating account of his early days as a knockabout on the wild frontier...