Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nepal's border squabble with China was smoothed over by week's end by a return to the traditional split of Mount Everest between Nepal and Tibet. But Nepal's Prime Minister flatly refused Chou's offer of a nonaggression pact. As for Nepal's bedrock problems. King Mahendra. during a month-long tour of the U.S. and Canada, hoped to expand Western sympathy for an awakening land hampered by feudal poverty and widespread (94%) illiteracy...
...Song deliberately set out to jolt Rhee out of the presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
...money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping bag, let his wife out the front door, locked it and slipped through a window. Two days later they made it across the border...
...leaving the radio to chatter his taped call to greatness. Air Force planes flying overhead to attack were called off moments before they could fire a shot. Eleven hours later, eight armed peasants captured Castro León and five companions, just 20 minutes away from the Colombian border...
Died. Mirza Ali Khan, 72, the Fakir of Ipi, leader of the fierce Pathan tribe in the rugged mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, who repeatedly raided the British between 1919 and 1947, got help at times from Afghanistan and the Axis powers, who were anxious to keep the British tied up; of a heart ailment; in his mountain home in Waziristan...