Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular Indian regiments are on the way to man all the border separating Tibet from India's North-East Frontier Agency and will take over the defense of the region from the civilian Assam Rifles. Red Chinese troops are said to be still in control of the Longju checkpoint, four miles inside India. They will be asked to withdraw peacefully. Suppose they refuse? An army spokesman answered: "Then the Indian army will strive to push them...
...back door's runway 22 was equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
...four-truck convoy and its five grim soldiers rolled into West Germany, past the checkpoint on the border between East and West Germany...
...winner was John Welsh of Harvard, who drove an MG A and was a scant one second off the average speed at the checkpoint...
Their object was to follow a '57 A. C. Bristol Aceca, which left ten minutes earlier and dropped lime markers along a twisting, sixty-mile route that ended at the Concord battlefield. In addition, a hidden checkpoint clocked their speed, which had to be exactly 26 miles per hour...