Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people are preparing for you." Instead of decamping, King Hussein last week closed his border against Syrian arms and agents, toured the old city of Jerusalem, Al Birah and Ramallah, where he chatted with army officers and inspected troops in their sandbag dugouts facing the Israeli positions along the frontier. In his determination to stay in power, Hussein jeered at Israel, partly to pacify the Palestinian Arabs, who make up two-thirds of his 1,800,000 subjects, partly because Israel's support for Jordan independence is a political embarrassment...
...Democratic National Committee keeps careful files on congressional voting records. Southern insurgents, no matter how friendly they may be to the New Frontier, will be discouraged from running in Democratic primaries against incumbent Congressmen who have been reasonably cooperative with the Administration. But opponents of unfriendly Congressmen will receive covert Administration support, plus open political and financial aid from labor and Negro leaders...
...Constitution. Attorney General Kennedy's trip was part of the overall effort. By knocking down the barriers against Negro voting, the Administration can not only help strengthen Negro rights, but-if the attempt pays off-make the South's Democratic Party more to the New Frontier's liking...
...more than likely to march to the west bank of the Jordan River, slicing off the null piece of Jordanian territory that protrudes into Israel. And even should U.S. and U.N. pressure force the Israelis back again, they might successfully insist on border rectifications to produce a more defensible frontier against the Arab world, and a U.N. force to guard against attack from the east. A knowledgeable Western observer is convinced "that Israel will attack Jordan if given sufficient excuse or provocation. It would be short, dirty, and over in 48 hours...
...member of the gallery staff announced that she had successfully achieved blue ice cream. She had mixed blue dye and vanilla ice cream with a monkey wrench. The New Frontier moved an inch forward on its stools...