Word: frontierment
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...also are flashes of déjà vu. The warm and graceful figure of Mary Frances Sweeney suddenly materialized in the fifth-floor hall of the Carter transition office. She used to be administrative assistant to the late Democratic Party chairman John Bailey, a fixture in the New Frontier and Great Society. Mrs. Sweeney is now helping to restart the Democratic engine. And Evelyn Irons, who went to the White House with Joe Califano in 1965 and worked for James Schlesinger through the Republican years, will journey back to her old White House haunts as secretary...
...dean of Hebrew University's Faculty of Humanities. Israel, Talmon argues, was born in desperate times that called for unorthodox methods if it was to survive. But, he says, "because we missed a beat in the growing-up process," the country has not made an orderly transition from frontier state to mature nation. "There are still traces of unorthodoxy," Talmon maintains, "and people have problems defining the boundary between what is permissible and what is not. In a society where you have unconventional feats such as Entebbe, it is hard to apply very definite rules in other fields...
...side of the frontier (see map), the Peruvians have been moving troops, Soviet-built T-55 tanks and American-made armored personnel carriers into burgeoning military bases in the southern border provinces. On the other side, the Chileans, bracing for a possible invasion, are mining the desert, implanting tank traps and building fortifications. While tensions across this sere, sparsely populated frontier have smoldering for nearly a century, the situation lately has become especially volatile as Peru and Chile frantically...
...dawn quiet of central Germany is suddenly shattered by the thundering explosions of tens of thousands of Soviet rockets and artillery shells. Then thousands of Soviet tanks, with dozens of motorized rifle divisions behind them, crash across the frontier into West Germany. Far to the south, Warsaw Pact forces blast into Turkey and through Yugoslavia toward Italy, while the Soviet Fleet moves in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to neutralize NATO's warships...
...What does the Israeli buildup on Lebanon's southern frontier mean...