Word: frontierisms
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...foreign affairs, everything in sight seems an emergency, from the hostages to the Polish frontier. Whatever happens in Poland, Reagan will not be overeager to negotiate an arms-control pact with the Soviets. What sort of agreement, then, will eventually...
...reached at least a temporary meeting of minds. One White House aide, delighted that the threat of an immediate Soviet invasion appears to have passed, declared last week in Washington: "Walesa has surpassed Wallenda in pulling off the biggest tightrope act in history." Nonetheless, Soviet divisions on the Polish frontier and in East Germany remained on top alert, ready to pounce if unrest flared-or if the Warsaw government of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania simply could not control the popular demand for more freedom and a better life...
...Salt Lake City before winding up at Arco's Black Thunder mine in Wyoming. He watched in awe as "shovels the size of freighters dumped coal into trucks the size of houses." In Washington, D.C., Correspondent Gary Lee interviewed Congressmen and other powerbrokers active in the frontier states...
...what the party itself called "the brink of economic and moral destruction." More than that, the dread scenario of Moscow intervening to prevent a key satellite from abandoning Soviet-style socialism suddenly seemed very real, perhaps imminent. Soviet troops in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and along the Poland-U.S.S.R. frontier were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events in Poland with those that touched off the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was a measure of understatement in the urgent message of the Polish party: "All Poles are engulfed by profound...
...arming, training and financing" extremist elements of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to topple Assad's ten-year-old regime. Syrian television recently reported that Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran had even visited Muslim Brotherhood camps near Irbid on the Jordanian side of the 240-mile common frontier. Damascus further charged that the Muslim Brotherhood, operating from clandestine camps in Jordan, has been able to launch a two-year campaign of assassinations and bombings within Syria. King Hussein has firmly denied the Syrian allegations, although he has legalized political activities by the Brotherhood inside Jordan...