Word: bordering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ever since he and the army took over the wobbly and corrupt government of Burma 15 months ago, he has been anxiously trying to settle the country's longstanding border dispute with Red China. But each time agreement seemed near on the three disputed villages and the two large (180 sq. mi.) tracts of land, the Chinese would find that some new "adjustments" would have to be made. Last week, having had a change of heart, Peking brought its long filibuster...
Today, the outskirts of Carlisle, just south of the Scottish border, are almost indistinguishable from the outskirts of Southampton 400 miles away, and along the highways between the two cities, William Blake's "green & pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
Shoot at Sight. Imperial County's problem is that, although its antirabies precautions have long matched the U.S. average, it faces an abnormal hazard-an estimated 25,000 stray dogs across the border in Mexicali (pop. 175,000), capital of Baja California Norte, Mexico's newest state. An eight-mile fence, 8-ft. high, between Calexico and Mexicali, does not keep the beasts out, mainly because they trot through the border control post alongside cars...
...current border-jumping epidemic began Labor Day, when one rabid dog bit a man and a child. It built up gradually. Imperial County was quarantined and declared a rabies area in early November...
...health officers opened vaccination clinics for dogs, got 5.000 vaccine doses from the Pan American Health Organization. It looked like too little, too late; more than 600 residents had been bitten, of whom 425 had taken shots. Casualty reports were feared daily. Even the intensive efforts north of the border mir;ht not be enough. Said Calexico's City Health Officer Al Brooks: ''If we get by without a few people dying from rabies, it will be a miracle...