Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...still bent on curtailing his propaganda opportunities, his hosts successfully resisted Nikita's demand for equal time on Paris' city hall steps, where President Eisenhower spoke last September. They also held out against his demand to visit Strasbourg, suspecting that there, on the Franco-German border itself, the Soviet tourist might let fly with a tirade against the Germans...
...painful independence pact been completed than the Congo's neighbors-Belgium's old friends-began making mysterious moves that seemed aimed at carving up the territory for their own benefit. First, France, which still controls much of the region along the Congo's northwestern border, began glancing covetously at the Lower Congo, the narrowing western edge around Leopoldville, which is the Congo's only outlet to the sea. Then, 1,500 miles inland, the British-controlled Rhodesian Federation was talking of annexing the Congo's Katanga province, which produces 60% of Congo wealth from...
After months of exchanging crusty letters over the India-Red China border dispute, Red China's Chou En-lai last week accepted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's invitation to come to New Delhi to talk about it. In a letter oozing good will, Chou said that because of state business he could not go in March, when invited, but he would go in April. He was, said Chou, grateful for Nehru's "friendly invitation," and hoped to "see the dark clouds hovering between our two countries dispersed through our joint efforts...
Though Chou conceded nothing, New Delhi optimists believe that Red China is at last concerned over its deteriorating popularity in Asia, and some thought they could guess the kind of bargain Chou hoped to strike. Red China recently settled its border dispute with Burma by abandoning its claims to Burmese territory south of the McMahon Line. Perhaps Red China would similarly confirm India's northeastern borders along the 700 miles of the watershed McMahon Line, if allowed in the northwest to keep the 9,000 square miles of Kashmir around Ladakh, where Red China has built a strategic military...
...another invasion by Panamanians determined to plant their flag on zone soil. Then the Canal Company's public information officer, William Griffin Arey Jr., had an inspiration. For $14.85 he bought 60 tiny U.S. and Panamanian flags to decorate lamp posts on the zone side of the border. Next day Panama's surprised Foreign Ministry viewed "with much pleasure what has happened." Even Panama's rabble-rousing politicos were dazzled. "An intelligent and conciliatory step," said their leader, and the threat of an ugly demonstration was over...