Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death. West Berliners watch fretfully as the barricade grows more formidable and its servants' marksmanship improves. The Wall has become an all-pervasive part of life in Berlin. At their backs, West Berliners feel the cold-eyed scrutiny of the Communist cops, whose duty is to guard their frontier not from those outside, but against their own people. Hardly a night passes without the rattle of gunfire and the sounds of death from the other side. To West Berliners, the Wall is a calendar: they will recall a date by saying, "It happened the month before the Wall...
...ends in the U.S. sector, at East Germany's Schonefeld airport, watchtowers and barbed-wire barriers also seal the city's 65-mile western border with the Soviet zone. And that does not count the 830-mile Marxist Maginot line that seals East Germany's western frontier from the Baltic to Czechoslovakia. This is what Walter Ulbricht cynically calls the Democratic Anti-Fascist Protection Wall; already it boasts 500 watchtowers, 1,000 fortified bunkers, 93 miles of minefields, and throughout its length, the wide, plowed strips of earth where a footprint can be seen from a distance...
...hope there won't be any war, but let us be prepared." Preparedness, he emphasized earlier at a press conference, does not include allying India with Asia's anti-Communist nations or joining "some military bloc." "Even if disaster comes to us on the frontier," he said, "I am not going to let India rely on foreign arms to save its territory...
Symbol of Rebellion. The shadows are changing for Harry Byrd. He is 75. His Senate career spans the New Deal and the New Frontier. "I am," he says in wry pride, "the only man left in the Senate who voted against the Wagner Act and the TVA." Throughout his career, he has been fighting against burgeoning bureaucracy and bloating budgets. It galls him that during his three decades in the Senate the public debt has swelled from $23 billion to $298 billion, and the number of federal employees has grown from 580,000 to 2,500,000. This...
...wrangle over the disputed Himalayan border between the two countries. Last week China passed India its 76th note in nine months-and clearly indicated that it thought its southern neighbor was the pawn in what Jawaharlal Nehru has described as a "game of military chess" along the ill-defined frontier...