Word: frontierment
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Squaw Valley: the very name was enough to unhinge the venerable geezers In the international Olympic movement 20 years ago. It simultaneously evoked the worst of California and the wild West, the depravity of Tinseltown and the dangers of the untamed frontier. When the remote resort in the Sierra Nevada was chosen as host of the 1960 Winter Games, one French official fretted: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...
...relies on an unchanging principle of the American adventure yarn: free, capable men enjoy bending the law, especially when they can keep moving at high speed. The book's title is slang for Chinese immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. Its hero, Wesley Erks, is heir to the frontier spirit, a man with "an eye used to sighting down a fence line and the barrel of a shotgun." But Erks is also a thoughtful man for whom yellowfish begin as a commodity to be hauled for pay and end as tragic figures on a par with the vanishing Tlingit...
Fazal's divisions are armed with such obsolete equipment as 2½-ton American trucks, reconditioned after the Korean War. Roads in the area are not wide enough for modern tanks, and radar is virtually nonexistent along the western frontier. Nonetheless, Fazal estimated that the border could be made defensible within ten months by widening roads, upgrading communications and improving local railroads. The cost: $1 billion...
Pakistan will also need aid to cope with the unending tide of refugees crossing the mountain passes from Afghanistan. There are now about 450,000 refugees in the Northwest Frontier province alone, many of whom are being sheltered by their tribal cousins in the area, but the countrywide total is expected to reach 1 million by April. This huge population of uprooted peoples represents a threat both to the Soviets and to Zia. The bitterly anti-Communist refugees have no love for the new regime in Kabul; the Pushtun tribesmen in the province have long chafed under Islamabad...
...Soviets were to launch a military attack, chances are that it would be not in the Northwest Frontier but along the 300-mile stretch of border that cuts through lands occupied by the rebellious Baluch peoples, who live astride Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Baluchis, who have long yearned for autonomy, might welcome a Soviet-inspired Afghan invading force that would promise to honor the Baluchis' "legitimate aspirations" -as Afghanistan's new President, Babrak Karmal, has vowed to do. A friendly regime in a breakaway Baluchistan would give the Soviets an outlet to the Arabian...