Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bases occupied by British or U.S. forces, the Bundeswehr had no range on which it could carry out air-to-air, or air-to-ground missile firings, and what little flying Luftwaffe pilots could get in was done under the noses of Soviet observation posts on the East German border. So precious is space within West Germany's constricted borders that Strauss argued he could not even find storage room for the 90-day supply of matériel that NATO has asked the West German forces to maintain...
...flare-up date from Israel's claustrophobic feeling of isolation in the Arab Middle East, and its conviction that the indifferent rest of the world has reneged on its promise to keep the Suez Canal open to Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village in a demilitarized zone. The U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission called it a "flagrant violation" of the armistice, "contrary to elementary humanitarian principles." President Nasser evidently thought...
...more unites the Soviet Union and Communist China than divides them. But what divides them is becoming more and more conspicuous. Ageless national conflicts are already pulling Russia and China in different directions. Under the impact of their exploding population, the Chinese are moving westward and northward into the border lands of Mongolia, Sinkiang and Manchuria (where population has doubled since...
When Toronto's Geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson recently crossed the border, he found that it took five hours. After the Russians had switched the train wheels at Otpor to fit China's narrower-gauge tracks, he reported: "The train crept forward in the dark toward the actual border. It was brilliantly floodlit. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets were on guard...
Twelve hundred miles north of the U.S. border, in a land of frozen inlets and howling winds, above the upper reaches of Hudson Bay, is Cape Dorset. Only a cluster of frame houses, snow huts and translucent plastic igloos on the barren southern coast of Baffin Island, it is the trading station for some 320 Eskimos living in scattered three-and four-family camps along the island's frozen coast. It is also the center of the best folk art this side of Africa. Already famed as the most skilled of the Eskimo sculptors, the Cape Dorset people have...