Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Stage Thunder. It was in keeping, too, that last week's display began with a tough-toned warning by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, the Defense Minister who accompanied Khrushchev to the summit. Malinovsky had issued a new order to Soviet rocket forces: if any foreign plane flies across the border of Russia or any other Communist country, strike at the base the plane flew from. "We do not trust the imperialists!" he cried in a speech at the Kremlin. "We are convinced that they are only waiting for an opportunity to attack...
...month hundreds of hapless Guineans were arrested on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government on behalf of "French colonialism and its black lackeys." They were an unlikely bunch of plotters: petty crooks caught black-marketing, government officials charged with smuggling trunkloads of the new currency over the border, and young intellectuals led by brilliant, French-educated Ibrahim Diallo, a former civil servant who had asked Touré's permission to form an opposition party...
Last week signs on buses and vending machines made it clear that Yankee coins could go home. Professional coin runners, who used to buy $100 of U.S. silver at border cities with $95-$97 in Canadian currency and then truck it legally across the border, were trying other ways to make a fast dime. The royal mint in Ottawa worked overtime to make enough coins for Canada's needs, for the volume of circulating U.S. coins was down by nearly...
...Incirlik, an operations officer tersely logged the take-off of the high-altitude U-2 weather research flight. If all went well, that was all the official records would ever have to say. Meanwhile, Pilot Powers banked to a course that took him north and east-arcing toward the border of Soviet Russia...
...Lockheed recruited Air Force ist Lieut. Francis Powers. Powers was a plane-happy youngster born in the Cumberland mountain country in Kentucky, near the Virginia border. His father, Oliver Powers, 55, who owns a shoe-repair shop in Norton, Va., reveled in telling callers last week that Francis got his first plane ride at the age of 14, came back to announce: "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back...