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...Thai border. Within 36 hours last week, the Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During a brief argument, a Thai sergeant said, "If you fire at us, we'll fire back." Replied the Vietnamese, "If you fire at us, we'll invade Thailand." In the end, the Vietnamese pulled back into Kampuchea after being warned that the Thai government would "take action." Thai...
...unlikely combination of circumstances has conspired to keep this curious, compelling tale from public view. History is written by the victors; the senior Franklin's autobiography gives his offspring no more than a brief nod for helping him build some frontier forts. As for William, his chance of writing his own version was severely hampered by a Revolutionary War fire that destroyed not only his furniture but all his papers. Luck was most assuredly not on this man's side...
...industry was given increased freedom to set fares and pick routes in 1978, People Express and other new, cut-rate carriers have started shootouts in the skies. While such airlines as American, United and Delta reported strong profits in 1984, several others, including Pan American, Eastern, Western and Frontier, posted losses...
...LORDS: FRONTIER DAYS (EMI/America). A major-label debut by a hang- tough New York band...
Advanced technology is not the province of just a few way-out industries. Zysman, who studies the exotic fields from the outskirts of California's Silicon Valley, maintains that the frontier industries are changing the way other, more commonplace businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically...