Word: frontierment
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...have been killed or wounded. Last week leaders of five rebel groups met in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar to form yet another loosely structured "united front." Their aim: to seek financial support for more arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect $20,000 for local gunsmiths to build portable armor-piercing guns; the rebels do not have conventional antitank weapons. With only homemade weaponry and local generosity to rely upon, it was uncertain how long the insurgency could hold out against Moscow's 80,000 well...
Manners makyth man, according to the ancient English axiom. However, it is woman who makyth manners, a behavioral frontier that has traditionally been too sensitive to be guarded by men. From Chaucer's Wife of Bath through Godey's Lady's Book, Emily Post, Amy Vanderbilt and Letitia Baldrige, the doyennes of decorum have defined and refined social norms to the point at which a boilermaker in Metropolis, Ill., knows (from his wife) that it is O.K. to eat bacon with his fingers, while french fries should be conveyed by a fork...
That recurring concern with the security of the frontier seems genuine and deeply ingrained. Long before the massive airlift of soldiers into Afghanistan, Soviet authorities had emphasized the close historical ties between the peoples of Soviet Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, and of Afghanistan. "The Uzbeks and Afghans-we're one people," said Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of the state radio and television in Tashkent. He went on to express a feeling of almost familial responsibility toward his backward cousins to the south: "We have a saying that our dogs live better than the Afghans lived under the old regime...
...past two weeks. Late last month a surprisingly strong criticism of Karmal's attempts to form a broader political base appeared in the Kabul New Times, a government-run English-language daily. Karmal, who is believed to have ties among both the deposed royal family and the frontier tribes, had included non-Marxists in his government. Knowing that many of the Cabinet members were bitter political enemies, some Western observers in Kabul concluded that the mix was probably unworkable. "Karmal's dilemma is unique," said a diplomat at the time. "To win the people's trust...
...celebrities were among the 100 participants in last week's much touted "March for Survival," organized by the International Rescue Committee and Doctors Across Frontiers, a French aid organization. When this earnest band reached the Cambodia-Thailand frontier they shouted an appeal through a red bullhorn, asking that they be allowed to cross the bridge to Cambodia with 20 truckloads of food and medicine. Rebuffed, the marchers donated the relief supplies to Cambodian refugees in Thai camps...