Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California was no Camelot, but a growth rate higher than that of either Japan or Israel was making it a new frontier. With 70% of its work force employed in the service sector, California was the world's most advanced industrial state. Kansas City, Mo.'s Midwest Research Institute rated its "quality of life" tops in the nation. Few disputed that conclusion, since annual per capita income ran 18% above the national average. California was the future, and it worked...
...also possible that in the end the army will once again yield to the temptation to remain in power, particularly if the outcome of the October voting is not decisive. Observes Correspondent Malkin: "The generals may discover that they are still riding a wild frontier pony and may find it exceedingly difficult to dismount...
...tensions between East and West have remained all too tangible along the border between the two Germanies. For more than a generation, elite units of NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, the world's two most powerful war machines, have faced each other across this heavily guarded 836-mile frontier. To signal clearly that it remains determined to defend Western Europe, even in the face of a massive Warsaw Pact arms and troop buildup, the U.S. next year plans to base an additional 3,800-man infantry brigade in West Germany, near Bremerhaven. Meanwhile, crack U.S. units continue to patrol...
...were reported by Washington Correspondent Don Sider. The description of the pipeline itself, with its adjoining highway for trucks and its walkways for caribou, came from our Alaska stringer, Jeanne Abbott, who has traveled its entire length. She says the pipeline has transformed her state, making "the old casual frontier style a quaint backdrop to a fast-paced urban way of life...
Less publicized was the Kfar Kassen massacre in 1956, which was carried out by regular army troops. The commander of a battalion along the Israeli-Jordanian border ordered the commander of a Frontier Guard unit to impose a strict curfew from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. on several villages. Anyone leaving his home or trying to enter the village during that time was to be shot. The curfew was announced at 4:30, leaving little time to warn the populace. In particular, many villagers worked outside the village, and there was no way to inform them of the new security...