Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel's brave surrender of its oilfields, frontier towns and strategic buffer zone--as impressive as it is--has not accomplished the goals first proposed in 1977 by the late Anwar Sadat and later nurtured by Jimmy Carter. The dream of lasting peace has faded behind the smoke of gun battles and vehement declarations from various combatants that no more concessions will be made. Instead of the first giant step toward a new understanding, the completion of the Sinai agreement has ironically become an exception in a furious conflict...
...despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press, and open assembly, Reagan has preserved close ties with Buenos Aires. In exchange for U.S. support, Argentina has declared its open hostility to the Marxist forces on the continent, posing as an integral part of the U.S.-led "strategic frontier" against Moscow in the Western Hemisphere...
Beggs, however, is eager to get NASA "out of the space trucking business" and back into its primary role as a research and development agency that opens up new avenues to the high frontier of space. Beggs already has one idea he wants NASA to pursue: "platform," a building the permanent first habitat true space where scientist astronauts could live and work in orbit. With a little trucking help from the shuttle, of course. - - By By Frederic Golden...
Davis asked a census specialist for a town "northern enough to be industrial, southern enough to have a gently rural aspect, western enough to have once been on the frontier, eastern enough to have a past." He came-up with Hamilton, "a city, a self-contained town, a suburb, a satellite in the orbits of both Cincinnati and Dayton, a minor metropolitan cluster, a country seat, a bump on the plain, a galactic microdot where 63.189 people want to see what will happen next. "Davis probably could not have done better in his search for an American stew...
...have never considered normal the state of hostility and estrangement between our countries." Downplaying the doctrinal conflict that caused his predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, to withdraw all Soviet advisers from China in 1960, Brezhnev offered to renew negotiations on the border disputes that provoked major skirmishes along the Ussuri River frontier in 1969. The Soviets have important reasons to seek a reduction in tensions with China. Faced with domestic economic strains and a dangerous hemorrhaging of resources in Poland and Afghanistan, Moscow may want to limit pressure along the 4,200-mile-long border with China, which is now defended...