Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giant Guam-based B-52s of the Strategic Air Command began blasting forested guerrilla redoubts. U.S. medium bombers inched ever closer to the Red Chinese frontier in their raids against the North...
Barzani has long enjoyed aid from his Kurdish brethren in Iran. The mountainous frontier is not only impossible to police, but the Teheran government-anxious to avoid open revolt among its own 3,000,000 Kurds-has not strained itself trying. Last month Iraqi troops, opening yet another "offensive" against "Barzani's gang," pursued Kurdish rebels across the ill-defined border into Iran, while Iraqi MIG jets strafed Kurds in villages on the Iranian side. Iran charged that a 150-man Iraqi force shelled the Iranian village of Tang-e-Hammam, executed two captured Iranian gendarmes, and hacked their...
...Kurdish infiltrators" three kilometers in side Iraq. Back came Iran with the protest that 100 armed Iraqis had invaded Iran again, attacking Iranian nationals and rustling cattle. Last week Iran accused Iraq of four more air attacks, listed a total of seven Iranians dead and 20 wounded in the frontier fray...
...knives for one complete century of incredible carnage, were abolished in 1935. But they survive in song and story, cinema and television as strong silent lawmen who all look like Gary Cooper or Lyndon B. Johnson. They are more factually commemorated by Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Frontier) in this famous volume, republished now (with a foreword by President Johnson) for the first time since 1935. But the facts, though they strongly suggest that the Rangers did not always keep their honor high and clear, nevertheless indicate that the organization at worst was a necessary evil, at best...
McNelly of the Tex-Mex. At war's end, with no more Mexicans to kill, the Rangers were temporarily disbanded. But in 1874, the corps was reconstituted in two battalions-one assigned to the frontier to arbitrate range wars, the other posted to the Tex-Mex border to control cattle rustling. The leader of the border patrol, Captain L. H. McNelly, is generally acknowledged as the greatest Ranger of them all. He mounted a scarum series of across-the-border raids against Mexican rustlers, and then capped his campaign with perhaps the most famous action in the history...