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to catch defectors?

 

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Hitting a target?

 

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To trick/trap people who were trying to defect/seek asylum?

 

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to catch defectors?

To trick/trap people who were trying to defect/seek asylum?

During the cold war when there were a lot of defectors trying to get out of the USSR. The border guards set up fake border points along the road out of the country. When the defector passed a fake unmanned border check point he thought he was out of the country. Further down the road he would see a convenient American consulate and go in to seek asylum. Inside were Russian border guards.

 

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[unassuming]

China?

 

[shack]

Radios?

 

[Bmin7b5]

Dark roast has less caffeine, so it is true

 

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Frogs legs first eaten in British Ilse.

 

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Iceland - most expensive big macs 2x time price UK 5-122

 

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China?

When John Cabot sighted Newfoundland in 1497, he thought he had found China.

 

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Radios?

In the 1930s laws were proposed in Massachusetts and St. Louis to ban car radios out of fear that they would distract drivers and cause accidents or even lull a driver to sleep.

 

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Dark roast has less caffeine, so it is true

Dark roasted coffee beans have less caffeine.

 

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[unassuming]

Tonawanda, Cheektowaga

 

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True?