Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various projects. Then, abruptly, the Chinese workers vanished earlier this year, and some reports suggested that Mongolia had ordered them out of the country. Now there is constant bickering between the two countries. Last week Mongolia was reported to be alarmed by Chinese troop concentrations on the Mongolian frontier. Ulan Bator also complains that Mao & Co. have instituted something of a blockade forcing the Russian satellite to reroute its minimal trade with Japan and other overseas countries through Vladivostok-a journey more than double the length of the old route through Tientsin. The petty recriminations from both sides...
...Cabinet meeting, the Turkish government issued a five-point communique: 1) Greek Cypriot military activities will be subject to reconnaissance flights by the Turkish air force, 2) the Turkish armed forces are being held in a state of alert, 3) on the Aegean seacoast and on the Turkish-Greek frontier in Thrace, the Turks are prepared to meet all attacks, 4) Turkey is providing its NATO allies with all necessary information about its military activities, and 5) measures are being taken to put the entire country, including the civilian population, in a state of readiness...
Harlem has seceded and declared itself a nation. Barricades made of abandoned autos, Fifth Avenue buses and Con Edison signs ("Dig We Must") have been erected on its borders. Frontier guards have been posted on the subway lines and the New York Central and New Haven railroads, and tolls are collected as the trains pass through Harlem. The "numbers" have been nationalized. Harlem's Congressman Lance Huggins, the first Prime Minister, announces a policy of no-surrender: "We have surrendered absolutely to our fate which is freedom. We had this secret space in us and now we have located...
...body of a Communist guerrilla sprawls among the water lilies. On a track through a swamp in Hau Nghia province, a young Vietnamese rifleman happily plucks a duck for supper, white feathers sticking to his mud-spattered battle dress. At an isolated Special Forces post near the Laotian frontier, a supply helicopter arrives carrying, in a sling under its belly, two bewildered cows...
...that 'total victory' can be won by simply standing up to the Russians, both guns drawn. It reduces the complexities of foreign policy to simple emotional terms that have wide appeal in the American experience-the rugged individualism of the pioneer, the gun-slinging marshal of the frontier town, the expedition of marines to clean out the pirates in Barbary or the corrupt governments of the Caribbean...