Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land to form the new state of Israel and sent 1,300,000 Palestinian refugees drifting into neighboring Arab countries. The bitterness engendered by that partition seems to have deepened rather than dissipated over the years, and Israel's raid on the Jordanian frontier village of Samu (TIME, Nov. 25) has fired it to the danger point. Warned Jordan's King Hussein: "The tensions built up by the events of the last two weeks have created the most explosive situation since the Suez crisis of 1956, and the results could be even more devastating for the free world...
...favorite, Adlai Stevenson, pulled out of the contest, Lawrence backed Kennedy, and the votes that he delivered sewed up J.F.K.'s nomination. Lawrence, who also won Lyndon Johnson's gratitude by nominating the Texan for the Vice-Presidency, became an influential voice in both the New Frontier and the Great Society...
Russia and China have been wrestling for years along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west. The first recorded battle between Russian and Chinese troops took place in the Amur River valley in the 1680s, and since Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate in earnest in 1956, repeated incidents have occurred. Major trouble flared in 1960 and again in 1962, when Pravda reported that 5,000 border "in cidents" had occurred within twelve months. The Russians have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands...
...Draft & a Plea. Jordan's Arab partners further inflamed the tense atmosphere by issuing repeated calls for action. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser blasted Hussein for refusing to arm frontier villages-a step he began to take at week's end. In Cairo, the Palestine Liberation Organization called for Jordanian police and security forces to join the riots rather than repel them. Syria bombarded Jordan with broadcasts charging that Hussein's Cabinet and army were in revolt and that Jordan's "liberation" had begun...
Preparing for the Worst. The prolific cooperation began three years ago when Evans, a veteran Washington reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, approached Novak, a congressional reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and talked him into giving the column a try. Evans, who was close to the New Frontier, and Novak, a Midwestern Republican, hit it off from the start. Their work habits differ-Evans usually meets a source over breakfast; Novak prefers to make his contacts at lunch-but they pool their information. They take turns writing the column, and they edit each other. "We use each other...