Word: frontierisms
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...could also affect foreign policy. In Moscow, there was some satisfaction over the events of the past two weeks. A move toward pragmatism in Peking could lessen the importance of the ideological disagreements between the two countries. Moreover, the Chinese military understands full well its weakness on the Russian frontier, and it may push for at least a limited rapprochement with Moscow...
...border between Kenya and the Sudan, soldiers with submachine guns halt all traffic, including nomadic herdsmen who usually cross at will with their goats and sheep. In neighboring Zaire, alarmed officials seal off part of their northern frontier. At airports in Africa and Europe, passengers suddenly find themselves subjected to unusual scrutiny and occasional detention. These grim security measures are aimed not at halting some new eruption of guerrilla terror but at containing a possibly greater menace: a killer fever that has been spreading ominously in equatorial Africa, causing as many as 300 fatalities, including the deaths of four Belgian...
...Shan range. The border-control point is a 600-yd.-long bridge across the Ili River, where the Chinese claim that the Soviets continue to infiltrate agents. They also say border markers are frequently moved and that the Soviets fire propaganda leaflets and even live artillery shells across the frontier...
...another China-vast deserts and snow-capped mountains and new oilfields. These are the sparsely populated frontier lands-80% of China's land mass but with less than 5% of its people-stretching from Tibet to Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia, across the Takla Makan and Gobi deserts to the beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner...
Slipping silently through woods and rolling farm lands about to explode with the new growth of the African spring, black guerrillas eluded the hard-pressed patrols along Rhodesia's frontier with Mozambique and posted crude signs on the fences of white farmers. The signs said simply: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES...