Word: frontier
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FROLIZI does not plan to wait for the verdict of history. In fact, if the border closure did anything, it changed a frontier to a front and encouraged the guerrillas to make ever-bolder attacks. They have already infiltrated Rhodesia through Mozambique, where there is no river barrier. In recent weeks, a score of Rhodesian and South African policemen (who help with border patrolling) have been killed or wounded. In addition, three civilians have been killed and five wounded in border areas...
...first formal speech as President, Johnson told a joint session of Congress: "All I have I would gladly have given not to be standing here today." His memorial to the slain President was to ram through Congress the New Frontier bills and programs that had been so long delayed. In 1957 he had reversed a record of opposition to civil rights; now he made what the New York Times called the "deepest commitment to the Negro cause of any American President." In his March 15, 1965, speech he even included the black challenge: "We shall overcome...
Franklin Roosevelt had been his idol and his model, and he set about to complete the New Deal. A cornucopia of liberal legislation-part Roosevelt New Deal, part Kennedy New Frontier, part Johnson's own Great Society -poured forth in housing, antipoverty programs, education, conservation, civil rights, Medicare. After his crushing defeat of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, Johnson pushed through such bills as the Highway Beautification Act and the Appalachian Regional Development Act. The $11.5 billion tax reduction had already aided a major economic surge, though his manipulation of the budget set the stage for the present inflation...
Where there are no self-firing weapons, second and third fences have been laid behind the frontier barrier with buried mines and a deep concrete-plated ditch between them. This type of fortification is intended to prevent a favorite escape maneuver: crashing through the barricade with a heavy car. Along certain sections of the border, the fences farthest away from the frontier are now equipped with electrified barbed wire that, when touched, alerts nearby border-control posts by optical and acoustical signals. Floodlights along populated sections of the frontier have long afforded West Germans a permanent panorama of escape attempts...
...Responded Secretary of the Navy John W. Warner: "I would so recommend." 2) Next month, Emily Joyce Howell, 33, of Denver will begin work as the nation's first and only woman pilot of a major scheduled airline. With the rank of second officer for Denver's Frontier Airlines, she will help fly Boeing 737s. 3) For 107 years a sanctuary for men only, the Harvard Club of New York City voted 2,097 to 695 to accept female members. President Albert Gordon promised women a "gracious" welcome, but Member Jonathan Morse gloomily predicted the demise...