Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start of another round of border bloodletting between China and the Soviet Union? It seemed ominous-for a while. As Peking told it, one day last week a Soviet helicopter flew across the Ussuri River frontier and 2½ miles into Heilungkiang, China's easternmost province, while boats landed 30 Soviet troops on Chinese soil. There, Peking charged, the Russians "tried to round up Chinese inhabitants, shooting continually and wounding a number of them." Some captives were dragged back to the river and given "kicks and blows" before they were finally...
...Street Theater's production of Daughter of Earth. The play is a biographical drama of the life of Agnes Smedley, based on a novel of hers. In this adaptation, Smedley--who wrote several books on the development of Communist China, derived from her experiences as a journalist--develops from frontier child to waitress to Berkeley student to activist and newspaperwoman, analyzing first Germany and then China. Deeply committed to the Communist Revolution, she became the target of anti-Red feeling in her native United States, and lived the rest of her life in England. Daughter of Earth opens May 12th...
...America the tourist wandered through Philadelphia, then journeyed down the Ohio River across the wilderness and back through the Allegheny Mountains. Encounters with Indian maidens and frontier moonlight enlivened his novels René and Atala and gave many Europeans new notions of the New World. The fantastic journey ended one night in a backwoods millhouse, where the fire illuminated an old newspaper headline: FLIGHT OF THE KING. Chateaubriand raced to Europe to join the army of the émigré princes. But the cause was hopeless, and he fled in exile to England. There he will languish until Volume...
Still, the new U.S. Code will have little immediate impact on the administration of local justice. Unfortunately, in Houston, which is fast acquiring an unsavory reputation for "frontier justice," there are some who believe Judge Sterling's sentences for the police officers were too harsh. After all, as one citizen noted, "A few years ago, they would have been set free...
...monastery at Crest, he moved to a parish in Grenoble. Eventually, he became a leader of the anti-Nazi Resistance in eastern France, using many aliases including the one that stuck: Abbé Pierre. Among other exploits, he carried Charles de Gaulle's ailing brother Jacques across the frontier to safety in Switzerland. Later he himself was smuggled into Algeria in a mail sack, carrying a plea for arms intended for Churchill...