Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a few years ago, it pulsed with a kind of frontier vigor...
...report is the reason Bok cites for instituting this plan. On the most superficial level. Bok refers to the loss of public confidence in the government because of the "divisive" issues of Vietnam, the "spectacle" of Watergate, and the failures of major federal programs such as the "New Frontier" and the "Great Society" to deal with problems like urban decay and racial strife...
...Spinola, the conservative general who led the revolt against Portugal's 45 near dictatorship last April, flew to Spain by helicopter for asylum Spanish military sources said he was placed under security at a Spanish air base near the frontier. He was ousted by left-leaning generals in September...
...neighboring states and sheikdoms. Aryan Iran, even though it is a Moslem country, has never been fully trusted by its Semitic Arab neighbors. Experts do not rule out a future conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Tehran's support of the Kurdish rebellion against Baghdad, as well as longstanding frontier disputes, has already led to skirmishing on the Iran-Iraq border. New Delhi, meanwhile, grows progressively more uncomfortable as it watches Iran's military muscle edge toward the Indian Ocean, fearing that Tehran one day will ally itself with Pakistan, a fellow Moslem state, against India...
...since the giant Alaska-pipeline debate of 1970 has the U.S. Interior Department run into such resistance. The issue this time is whether potential oil reserves on the continental shelf off three "frontier" areas-Alaska, the West Coast and the Atlantic seaboard -should be developed as those in the Gulf of Mexico have been. Last week, after a series of public hearings with Governors, Congressmen and other interested citizens from the states that would be affected, Interior officials were still smarting from the criticism...