Word: frontierisms
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...subject. Although there are many truths to be learned from the losing of the West, East, North and South, perhaps the most fundamental one is that the American Indian, his own preferences not-withstanding, did not exist in a racial vacuum. The treaty promises of a "permanent Indian frontier" were honored no longer than a 90-day-or-three-thousand-mile-whichever-comes-first used car warranty. Yet, the history that has been written about the Indian and about America has relegated him to a silent, specious isolation. Most of the books that have dealt with the Indian have been...
...Western nations last week, one of the first things she did was to go before her hawkish Parliament and plead for patience toward her handling of the crisis with Pakistan. The urgent need for a solution was all too apparent. Officials in New Delhi said that the biggest frontier battle yet between Indians and Pakistanis occurred when 2,800 Pakistani regulars crossed the border into West Bengal. Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram rose in Parliament to say that if India was attacked, it would "carry the war into Pakistan." Indians across the country, meanwhile, were placing bets on when...
When an army retreats, some will say that it is regrouping in an impregnable position. When the stock market plummets, some will say that it is testing a support level. When a playwright falls flat on his face, some will say that he is exploring a new frontier of drama. An agile use of the vocabulary of retrieval frequently snatches illusory success from palpable failure...
...violation has occurred and strike back in force. Both have sizable forces stationed near the borders-80,000 Pakistani regulars are in East Pakistan and perhaps as many as 120,000 Indians are along the 1,300-mile eastern border. Because of the earlier dispute over Kashmir, the western frontier, where each side has deployed an estimated 250,000 troops, could prove to be the more dangerous...
Scores of South Vietnamese were reportedly massing Sunday on both sides of the Cambodian Border. B-52 bombing raids across the frontier has led to speculation that they may soon invade Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base camps...