Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulate you on a comprehensive, well-balanced cover story on the India-Pakistan war [Sept. 17]. India maintains that the 1947 invasion of Kashmir by tribesmen from Pakistan's northwest frontier was the initial provocation, but you correctly state that a revolt was already in progress in the disputed state Filming for the MARCH OF TIME in India then, I was told of this by the man who led the revolt, Sardar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Free Kashmir...
Should China seize Sikkim, it would be in a position to close the narrow neck of land linking India proper to the state of Assam and the North East Frontier Agency, as well as open a route from China to East Pakistan. Well aware of the danger, India has kept two divisions of trained mountain troops based at Kalimpong for just such an eventuality...
There were other setbacks. The rebels' Chinese Communist allies were kicked out of Burundi on the Congo's eastern frontier. Algeria, which had once trained Simbas in the art of guerrilla warfare and had been one of their principal suppliers of arms, suddenly ordered all local rebels to stop plotting or get out, refused to allow Gbenye to enter the country even for a brief visit...
...trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page). It is also American landscape drawing at its best accurate, knowledgeable, architectural and withal a key link in the chain of shared experience that finally defined America as a nation...
Pakistan was making a serious reappraisal of all its international relationships. Close ties were knit with Turkey and Iran, two Moslem neighbors and fellow members of CENTO. A long and dreary border scuffle with Afghanistan was partially resolved, and Pakistan ended a two-year closing of the Afghan frontier...