Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn quiet of central Germany is suddenly shattered by the thundering explosions of tens of thousands of Soviet rockets and artillery shells. Then thousands of Soviet tanks, with dozens of motorized rifle divisions behind them, crash across the frontier into West Germany. Far to the south, Warsaw Pact forces blast into Turkey and through Yugoslavia toward Italy, while the Soviet Fleet moves in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to neutralize NATO's warships...
...What does the Israeli buildup on Lebanon's southern frontier mean...
...issue of literature generally. One gets the feeling that Lynn did not want to write about Dadalus's topic of adulthood and anxiously strayed into personal idiosyncracies. His essay expands into a kind of literary dumping ground for odd reflections on random groups and individuals: teenagers, Margaux Hemingway, the frontier. When he does attempt to make a point, as in his discussion of the recent film version of The Great Gatsby, he hardly strays from the fold of conventionalwisdom. Of Fitzgerald he asserts, "How many novelists in any age or in any country, can claim to have influenced an entire...
...strong Turkish Third Army, stationed along the nearby Russian frontier, was pressed into the rescue operation, along with helicopter and air force units. But relief efforts during the first 24 hours were badly muddled. A gasoline shortage hindered rescuers until the government released emergency supplies. Drugs were in chronically short supply. Hundreds of bottles of freshly donated blood were left behind in Istanbul because Turkish airline authorities were unable to provide air transport for delivery. The reason: many of their planes were en route to Saudi Arabia, loaded with Moslem pilgrims intent on making the hadj. Only 400 tents...
...believes the time is ripe "to assure that blacks have an equal chance to help shape the nation's policies and programs. A Cabinet post and a special assistant or two will not suffice. The need now is to integrate the policymaking process and to conquer yet another frontier of segregation...