Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow-bound Train No. 7 had just pulled into Naushki, the Soviet railroad checkpoint on the Mongolian frontier. Suddenly, swarms of Red Chinese students dashed out of the coaches and into the station, tied themselves with belts to block the entrances. Then, in the words of astounded Stationmaster Prokop Mikhailov, they "emptied their bowels and bladders on the floor, in spittoons, and on benches. And the men's room was only a few steps away...
...replacement train for the onward journey to Moscow, the Peking crew locked the emergency brakes on their own equipment, raised red signals, and moved cranes to blockade the rails. In the end, the harried Russians were able to force the Chinese train-and its rambunctious passengers-back over the frontier into Mongolia, and with a sigh of relief, Soviet trainmen chugged off toward Moscow in the replacement train. It might well be the last trip in a long time for the Moscow-Peking express. The Kremlin dashed off a scathing official protest to Peking over the "provocative violation of elementary...
...team, which was rushed to the scene from the Gaza Strip two months ago in an effort to stop the shooting. The unit, made up mostly of Yugoslav soldiers and Cana dian airmen, was far too small to police the vast, empty Yemen frontier, and from the start it was plagued by bad breaks and hostility from local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official...
Stevenson was referring to a bloody flare-up on the Israeli-Syrian frontier touched off, Israel charged, when ten Syrian soldiers sneaked across the Jordan River and the demilitarized zone and machine-gunned two 19-year-old farmers irrigating a kibbutz field north of the Sea of Galilee. The Syrians denied the killings, accused Israel of sending 15 armored cars charging across the border...
...proved himself politically powerful and beloved by women; it was when he began picking on the Roman Catholic Church and chasing teen-age girls that the military became bold enough to throw him out. Brazil, with its mixed Portuguese and African origins, confines its machismo to its frontier lands and southern cattle ranges. But it, too, succumbed to the magnetism of a macho leader when Getúlio Vargas raised a cavalry of southern Gauchos and rode to power in 1930. All over Latin America, the compulsion to follow a macho leader-the caudillo -helps to frustrate political organization...