Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after its eastern half broke away to become Bangladesh, Pakistan is again torn by disunity. Reminiscent of events that preceded civil war in East Pakistan two years ago, President Zulfikar AH Bhutto (see box page 27) has 1) dismissed the governors of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province, both popular leaders of the opposition National Awami Party, 2) sent troops into Baluchistan to put down tribesmen sympathetic to the ousted governor, and 3) touched off a storm of disapproval with a draft constitution that would in effect continue his own rule for another 15 years. To make matters...
Bhutto's actions threatened to destroy a fragile peace worked out last year with the opposition National Awami Party, which is the dominant political force in Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province. Baluchi and Pathan tribesmen in the two provinces have long been agitating for greater autonomy and a larger share of the economic pie. Although the National Awami Party has never advocated independence from Pakistan, various other political groups in the provinces do. Recently a group called "Azad [Free] Baluchistan" has sought to unite Pakistani Baluchis with fellow tribesmen in Iran to form a new nation. Though...
...message is contained mainly in a paperback "biography" called The Ultimate Frontier, which he wrote under the name of Eklal Kueshana. In it, Kieninger predicts that economic depression and severe social upheaval will hit the U.S. in the mid-1970s, followed by an awful war and massive earthquakes at the turn of the century. By 2001, mankind will be virtually destroyed-but not Kieninger's followers...
...youth (at 35, the youngest director in the Met's history), vast enthusiasm, intelligence, a growing reputation as a medievalist and solid backing from the WASP establishment. He was, to resurrect a headline from his Central Park days, A HAPPENING CALLED HOVING, the epitome of New Frontier bounce, flair and pragmatic cheek. Today, he is besieged in the museum whose physical shape, and concomitant policies, he has irrevocably defined and changed...
...instance, the Due de Mirepoix prudently smuggled out 500,000 livres (about $1,000,000) by horse-drawn carriage. Today planes, cars and sophisticated financial hanky-panky are the vehicles used. Businessmen are stashing their hoarded gold and cash in their Citroens and driving across the Swiss frontier. They run the risk of discovery and confiscation, but as a customs officer at the border post of Ferney-Voltaire puts it, "We cannot take every car apart...