Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another China-vast deserts and snow-capped mountains and new oilfields. These are the sparsely populated frontier lands-80% of China's land mass but with less than 5% of its people-stretching from Tibet to Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia, across the Takla Makan and Gobi deserts to the beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner...
Slipping silently through woods and rolling farm lands about to explode with the new growth of the African spring, black guerrillas eluded the hard-pressed patrols along Rhodesia's frontier with Mozambique and posted crude signs on the fences of white farmers. The signs said simply: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES...
...graphics of Art Director Sybil Newman Broyles and paeans to such Texas institutions as cowboy boots, wildcat oil drillers, chicken fried steaks and the brothel "that slept more politicians than the Driskill Hotel and the Governor's mansion combined." In fact, keeping citified Texans in touch with their frontier heritage is one of TM's top missions. Says Editor William Broyles, 31: "Our goal is to locate, and glory in, the rough edges of Texas culture...
Before going to jail to serve eleven months for that caper, Roselli was bold enough to betray the Mafia in 1970. At the time, a federal grand jury was investigating charges that the Mob had illegally concealed its interest in the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Roselli, by then the Chicago Mob's top man in Las Vegas, talked about the scheme after being given a pledge of immunity. One of the men he discussed was Chicago's Tony Accardo...
Death Zone. Since the Wall was built, 70 people have been trapped and killed among the wires, land mines and machine-gun towers that form a 100-yd. "death zone" along the border. At least 100 more people have been killed trying to cross the East German frontier at other points, and there seems to be no lessening of the vigilance...