Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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More Talk Than Deals. From south of the border came strongly worded protests: Canada is sending Cuba "everything this country is denying it," charged Louisiana Senator Russell Long. He urged the U.S. to stop buying Canadian oil and then watch the Canadians "race to Washington to tell us they are quitting dealing with Castro...
What had the U.S. done to invoke such wrath? To preserve peace in Latin America at the beginning of World War II, Washington was reluctantly involved in a centuries-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru. At issue was a triangle of steaming upper Amazon jungle almost as big (77,000 sq. mi.) as Ecuador itself. For 400 years the tract had been claimed by both nations. Then, in 1942, the U.S. -along with Brazil, Argentina and Chile - promoted a settlement, the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro, based on Peru's de facto control. Under the protocol, the four...
...Pereira, who did the overall design for the University of California's Santa Barbara branch. Instead of developing the Irvine ranch simply as a suburb of sprawling Los Angeles, Pereira has planned an independent, self-supporting city. The first community in the urban area (see map) will border Newport Beach, have a $150 million shopping center with garden apartments, single homes and acres of green lawns. "This community will not be dominated by the auto," says Pereira. "It will be a walking community where women can stroll to the shops with their children just as our grandmothers...
...mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...
...trip to Bamako, capital of poverty-stricken, landlocked Mali (pop. 4,500,000), he proudly announced the formation of another union. Hence forth, he said, the Ghana and Mali parliaments would meet jointly, to promote the growing unity movement in Africa-though the two countries have no common border or language. It was onward and upward for Osagyefo...