Word: frontierisms
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...West Bank itself becomes a Palestinian entity. To ease Israel's legitimate fears about the creation of a new Arab realm whose western frontier would be 8.5 miles from Tel Aviv, the Palestinian entity would not possess all the attributes of a sovereign state-at least for a transition period that could last as long as 25 years. It would, however, have its own flag, a parliament and executive and judicial bodies. It could issue passports to all Palestinians living anywhere in the world-an act of enormous symbolic importance to these 3.4 million people without a homeland...
...conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect, all we have left. All we have left is Alaska...
...closed to foreigners, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss visited three camps in Thailand, at the border provinces of Surin, Chantha-buri and Trat, which have been set up for some of the thousands of refugees who have run the gauntlet of mines, snipers and punji stick booby traps along the frontier to reach freedom. His report...
...least 70 cease-fires in the past 2% years in Lebanon, and nobody is betting on how long the latest one will last. The status of the forces has not changed. The only difference is that the Israelis are back in their own country. But they can cross the frontier again any time they think it necessary. No trooper on either the Christian or the Palestinian side is packing his gear and pulling...
...days in a Buffalo jail for vagrancy. A heavy drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women, he gave every promise of going on to become a late-19th century rebel without a cause-one of those frontiersmen with no frontier whose energies slowly dissipate in an aimless barroom brawl with life...