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...constructs -- Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia -- containing as many disparate and often hostile peoples. Hence today's tribal conflicts. All too often, a mistreated minority achieves independence and then mistreats other minorities in its midst or tries to "rescue" its brethren who live on the other side of a national frontier. Thus self-determination for one people becomes aggression against another...
...anyone died." After his release in 1964, he was sent to a coal mine, where he worked 13 years, until the dust ruined his lungs. From then on, after marrying and raising three children, he lived on meager rations and edible roots in a remote village near the Chinese frontier...
Similarly, Kohl likes NATO so much he wants to see it grow bigger. He is uncomfortable with Germany's exposed position on the frontier between the solidity of NATO and the uncertainty of what used to be the Warsaw Pact. He would like to move NATO's border east, embracing Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, even in the face of vehement opposition from Russia. On that score he may face Washington's displeasure too, even if Bill Clinton did say when he visited Germany last July, "I always agree with Helmut...
...work is on some of the most frontier topics in international relations," Gurney Professor of Political Science Robert D. Putnam said yesterday. "He is a very attractive person. He has been sought after by many other major universities...
...much different subject. Instead of landscapes and flora, he describes the nooks and crannies of the Texan welfare system and the urban beast known as Los Angeles. From the perspective of a homeless man wandering across the Arizona desert, Eighner gives an update on life in today's real frontier, the streets of America...