Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control very little territory in South Viet Nam, during the past year they have dramatically expanded their control over parts of Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the North Vietnamese army (NVA) now controls more real estate on the borders of Viet Nam than ever before. From the Sino-Laotian frontier in the north to the tiny crossroads town of Snuol in the south, Hanoi's troops are masters of an area that measures 840 miles long and 250 miles wide at its broadest point...
...Republic in 1949, Maxwell maintains, China has striven not to expand but to legitimize its borders. With barely a quibble, Peking negotiated border agreements accepting the postwar status quo with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia and Burma. The author believes that the Chinese were ready to settle the fuzzy frontier between India and Tibet in roughly the same way. But Nehru was supersensitive to charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border question; that meant siding with those who thought that...
Making history?not living in its vainglories and myths?is the challenge and promise of the South today. The Southern frontier closed in that awful moment when the first man came to the South in bondage, locking the Southern experience into its tragic course. Three and one-half centuries later, the thrall can be broken, the frontier reopened. The South can grow rich while there is still time to safeguard the land from despoliation. It can acquire once more the political power of the sons who helped articulate the nation's independence. Above all, it has a chance to shed...
...fresh fish; she also scours local shops for real jelly glasses. She regards the changes only as part of a dreadful decline in traditional American virtues. What his mother mourns, Peter misses too. But he suspects that her tastes may be more the product of privilege than the frontier spirit. Perhaps the decline of Rocky Port is a corollary of mass-produced equality? One peculiarly American theme of the book lies in the boy's continual worry over the conflict between an educated eye for quality and a blind belief in equality...
...lately, much of the traffic has been the other way. With the U.S. caught up in momentous internal problems, Australia has become the place that millions of Americans and Europeans consider the last beckoning frontier. A recent Gallup poll reported that 12% of the American people would like to move abroad, twice as many as in 1959. Of that group, a third (about 8,000,000) would choose Australia as their new home; since 1965, no fewer than 14,000 have done so. The same poll revealed that 40% of the British people, 27% of the West Germans...