Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Soviet naval presence in the western Atlantic, there is some evidence that the crisis has merely been postponed. U-2 reconnaissance photographs show that the base is almost complete (see map). In addition to bunkers for storing submarine-borne nuclear weapons, the Russians have built a steel antisubmarine barrier net between the shore and the island of Cayo Carenas and have installed antiaircraft emplacements. They have also built a pier for docking submarines and elaborate rest and recreation facilities. The bay now contains two storage barges designed to receive the discharges of nuclear-contaminated effluent from submarines. The tender that...
...Double Barrier...
...criticized Cambridge police treatment of minority groups, especially Puerto Ricons, who "face not only a color barrier, but also a cultural and language barrier...
Emotional Barrier. Behind the pact lay 1,000 years of deep mutual hatred between Germans and Poles. With the Treaty of Warsaw, Brandt thus cleared the greatest emotional barrier in the East bloc to his Ostpolitik, whose aim is to create a more relaxed atmosphere between West Germany and its Communist neighbors...
...black cops' chief argument for a bigger role in ghetto law enforcement is that they can do it bettermore fairly and more intelligently. Says Deputy Chief Inspector George Harge, top-ranking black cop in Detroit: "Language is the biggest barrier. White policemen find it hard to differentiate between riot language and horseplay language. Some black talk implies an imminent riot to whites, but to blacks it is a way of life. A rash decision by a patrolman based on language that he believes is offensive can precipitate instead of quash a riot." Leon Fisher, a black...