Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area. But there was speculation that his transfer north was also designed to loos...
...brain is the newest and perhaps last frontier in man's exploration of himself. Crossing that frontier could have the same impact on humanity as the discovery that the earth was round. "We are like the Europeans of the 15th century," rhapsodizes one brain researcher. "We're standing on the shores of Spain or Portugal, looking out over the Atlantic. We know that there is something on the other side and that our discovery of exactly what this is will mean that things in our world will never be the same again...
...made a remarkable but unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. had committed itself to the defense of Israel during the October war. Said a high Egyptian official: "As to security, the Israelis already have a guarantee. Kissinger has made us understand that, if our armies had started to cross the frontier into Israel, the U.S. would have used force to stop us. It seems to me that's enough guarantee for Israel, and frankly, that's all right with...
...good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews and commentary, for example, throw a welcome personal light on Hopper's laconic pessimism and Davis' exuberant jazz-age Cubism. Convincingly, O'Doherty sees Pollock's drip paintings as a very American frontier quest for raw sensation-a kind of painter's version of the Great American Novel...
Peking's local offers of autonomy to these states culminated in a policy to establish a Confederation of Himalayan Border States, which would include Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the Northeast Frontier of India. The confederation has yet to become a reality...