Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...period during which passes would be required of West Germans entering the city's Communist east sector. Last week, taking another slice, the East Germans made the pass requirement permanent for West Germans visiting East Berlin. Excepted from the rule: foreigners and native Berliners, who cross the border by the thousands each day to work in the east. "This will help to sober up the West German militarists," said Ulbricht...
Looking tired and tense, the King said that two minor Jordanian government employees had crossed the border into Syria just before the bombings, and Jordan now demanded that they be sent back. If they were not, he said, Jordan would seek satisfaction in the Arab League...
...attraction for the Communists in the Kremlin is even greater than it ever was for the Czars. The world's fourth largest exporter of oil, Iran, as a member of CENTO (formerly the Baghdad Pact,), is an essential link in the defensive tier along Russia's southern border. The U.S. has poured more than $800 million into Iran since World War II. By bringing Iran under its influence, Russia would knock out the last anti-Communist alliance in the vast area between Western Europe and the Far East, and would acquire a land bridge to the troubled Arab...
...biggest tycoons are all Scotsmen, London's Tatler declared: "There are those who maintain that the Act of Union has turned out to be more of a Scottish takeover bid." But the Scots have an answer to that one, too. "Once a Scot goes south of the border, he is lost to us," says Lieut. Colonel Robert Gayre, chief of Clan Gayre. "Macmillan only remembers he is a Scot when he goes to the U.S., where Scots are popular. In England he wears his old Etonian tie." Adds Edinburgh Royal High School's Rector David Imrie with...
...inordinate unemployment (3.1% in Scotland v. 1.4% for Britain as a whole) to its high rate of emigration (21,000 people last year) and occasional lapses from the stern Scottish morality. "Our illegitimacy rate," they enjoy pointing out, "is highest in those parts of the country that border England...