Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...help from Marshal Sarit, strongman of the neighboring kingdom of Thailand, whom he calls uncle (actually, he is a first cousin once removed). Vientiane gets all its fuel and most of its food from Thailand, and Sarit has in effect imposed a blockade simply by closing the border across the Mekong River from Vientiane...
Fast-moving Brazil has since built a bridge across the upper Parana, the border river, at the great Iguagu Falls, thus giving Paraguay its first direct highway route to the Atlantic. It has financed highways inside Paraguay and has given Stroessner free port facilities on the ocean.' Brazil's army has trained some of Stroessner's army officers, supplied him with castoff arms and 14 trainers converted to fighter planes that are permitted to fly from Brazilian bases if there is revolution in Paraguay. In turn, Brazilians got from Paraguay a bank branch, a 10-million-acre...
Mayorga criticized U.S. embassies South of the border, giving an example of an action taken by "an ugly American" Nicaragua. Medical scholarships to Nicaragua were cancelled by the U.S. embassy there after some students had demonstrated before the embassy. also declared that economic and political reports prepared by the embassy Nicaragua were inaccurate, and called for a real exchange of information, rather than the biased accounts he felt the embassy is sending...
...party in this pageant was dead serious. As Premier Souvanna returned from his royal audience, Pathet Lao rebels crossed the Nam Ma river in force and threatened the northern provincial center of Samneua. The attack was headed by five Communist-led battalions reported to have crossed the northeastern border recently from Communist North Viet Nam. "This is a national crisis," cried General Ouane Ratthikoun, chief of the royal Laotian armed forces. "It is a time for unity." The U.S., which had long felt that Vientiane had not been awake to the danger in the north and thinks that Prince Boun...
...resolution against letting the Panamanian flag be flown in the Zone. Last week, with Congress adjourned and another November looming, Ike ruled that Panama's flag of red, white and blue squares will henceforth fly daily with the U.S. flag in the Canal Zone plaza just over the border from Panama's legislative building...