Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouillas is an untidy, ramshackle village of 1,100 souls in southern France, not far from the Spanish border. Last week the name of Trouillas was heard round the world. By unanimous vote, the town council passed this resolution: "Considering its ardent desire for peace, in the name of the population of Trouillas, the council decides in unanimity to adhere to the world citizens' pact and to the movement created for a universal federation of peoples for the fight against war. We declare the commune of Trouillas world territory...
...evening last week three American soldiers and a German policeman were making the rounds checking boundary markers near Rottenbach, a small village on the border between the Soviet and U.S. zones of Germany. They were fired upon from behind by Russians who had penetrated some 250 yards into the American zone. The U.S. patrol took cover until Lieut. William Linderose, commander of their squadron, reached the scene. The Russians fired again. Lieut. Linderose shot back three times. The Russians retired, leaving behind the dead body of a young comrade...
...Americans could see the Russians in firing position across the border, and decided to leave the dead soldier where he lay. Next morning the body was gone, presumably carried off by the Russians under cover of darkness. The U.S. Army protested the border violation but by week's end no reply had been received from the Russians...
...sinister side, Russia's Tass news agency reported that "a certain Douglas" had arrived in Persia for "Alpinistic purposes" and was heading for a town near the Russian border. Translation: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his son, on a Persian vacation junket, planned to climb Mt. Demavend...
From Corpus Christi to the Mexican border, the slender, 119-mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami, chewed their way towards each other through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link...