Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article "Transamazonia: The Last Frontier" [Sept. 13] might more aptly have been headed "Operation Genocide...
...mission on Manhattan's First Avenue, where guests sometimes must balance plates on their knees. Bush has invited several of his fellow ambassadors to his summer home in Maine for weekends of tennis, boating, barbecues and tall tales (he is, among other things, an earthy, frontier-style raconteur). This week he will press his points over the national pastime: Bush has invited the permanent representatives and their wives to a New York Mets baseball game...
...flow of I.R.A. terrorists across the Eire-Ulster border-an ultimately impossible job for either London or Dublin. Last week the border itself figured in at least three serious incidents, one of which started with a British soldier's fatal error. TIME Correspondent John Shaw visited the frontier and sent this report...
Gaelic Sign. The 2,400 British troops trying to police the border have an almost impossible assignment. The frontier has no fences, no minefields, no walls, no guard towers. Officials are not even sure how long it is; their published estimates range from 250 to 303 miles. Twenty roads cross the frontier at authorized transit points, marked by British and Irish customs posts. An additional 160 "unapproved" roads also cross the border; passage along them is forbidden, but they are widely used for transporting everything from guns to butter, from whisky to gelignite. On the other hand, British troops have...
...century. Not since the feverish 1950s, when former President Juscelino Kubitschek built the city of Brasilia and had the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway carved out of the jungle, have Brazilians responded with such a display of national pride to the challenge of conquering their last natural frontier...