Word: frontierisms
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...appeal from a decision against two Virginia private schools that refuse to accept black students. Two federal courts have already ruled against the schools (and Ford's position) on 13th Amendment grounds. If the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of the lower courts, a new legal frontier in racial discrimination will have been established...
...Palestinian allies, who have been battling Lebanon's mainly Christian rightists. Syrian President Hafez Assad has been seeking a peace that would enable Christian and Moslem Lebanese to continue sharing political power; this would make it unlikely that a radical state would emerge on Syria's western frontier. This led Assad, earlier in the year, to send several thousand Syrian-led Saiqa fedayeen into Lebanon to bolster the Christian minority. Last week's action was a more daring move, for although a number of Syrian regulars have been disguised as Saiqa, and others have been based just...
...chief of the Atlantic Fleet during World War II from 1942-44; in Bethesda, Md. A spare, taciturn man, Ingersoll directed the fight against German U-boats and oversaw the escort of U.S. troops and supplies crossing the battle-soaked Atlantic. Later, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, he poured men and materiel into the fight against Japan...
...defense budget and favour continued Italian membership in NATO." Even apart from larger questions of morality, there is a petty irony in the communist position. Italy's NATO forces are the epitome of corrupt bureaucratic inefficiency; it has been calculated that there is one general per kilometer of frontier...
...government of Panama, and summed up his own position bluntly: "We bought it, we paid for it, we built it, and we're going to keep it." Though his analysis was weak, his rhetoric was strong, and an electorate only a couple of generations removed from the frontier and the justice of Judge Roy Bean responded instinctively...