Subject: Re: Witness markers<br/>
Date: Mar 15, 2003 @ 16:51<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1884065094">thanx for pulling out the highlight<br/>
<br/>
from here in garden city kansas <br/>
i imagine the soviets & the postsoviets too must have been very <br/>
considerate & deliberate about all their insignia & regalia<br/>
but they must have taken it all with a lot of vodka too<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Jesper Nielsen&quot; &lt;jesniel@i...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; From: Iraq-Kuwait Border Demarcation Commission<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.meij.or.jp/text/border/Kuwait-Iraq/irqkwt9305.htm">http://www.meij.or.jp/text/border/Kuwait-Iraq/irqkwt9305.htm</a><br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &quot;each location one witness mark on the Iraqi side and one witness <br/>
 </span></blockquote>mark on the Kuwaiti side are buried in the ground to facilitate <br/>
repositioning of the pillar should it become necessary. Small pointer <br/>
pillars on either side provide a direction towards the site of the <br/>
next pillar.&quot;<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; We see the same marker system at former Soviet borders, too. <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Are the witness markers/country markers in the former Soviet also <br/>
 </span></blockquote>technically part of the survey, or are they just placed there with <br/>
little considderation?<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Jesper </span></blockquote></div>