Word: border
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Gerasimov said the talks, expected to set the agenda for further efforts to rebuild the relationship after a freeze of three decades, produced general agreement for eventual withdrawal of troops from the border...
...when Susman argued that there is a fundamental right to abortion, Scalia appeared to see the border of one right impinging upon another. "It is very hard to say . . . that it must be a fundamental right," he replied, "unless you make the determination that the organism that is destroyed is not a human life...
...Border disputes between Senegal and its northern neighbor Mauritania are not unusual, thanks to the fondness of Mauritanian camels for Senegalese grass. Thus when two Senegalese peasants were shot near the village of Diawara last week the incident seemed unremarkable. But, fanned by the Senegalese media, the deaths ignited long-smoldering ethnic and social tensions between the black Senegalese and the Mauritanian Moors. More than 200 died when civilians from both countries attacked one another in border towns as well as in Senegal's capital, Dakar, and in Mauritania's two major cities. Each country used its army to restore...
...responding to the requests of other nations. The U.S., for example, is expected to deport Hector Burgueno Fragoso to Mexico. He was found last week in Tucson, and is a prime suspect in the drug-related torture and slaying of twelve people just across the border. The extradition process is usually governed by individual treaties between countries, each with its own special provisions. The U.S. alone has signed agreements with more than 100 nations, though not with some key countries like the U.S.S.R. or Iran. Suspected drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria remains in Colombia because that country...
Commission members monitoring the border situation formally declared SWAPO's presence in Namibia a violation of the peace accord and instructed the rebels to return to Angola. The U.N. belatedly began deploying, but at week's end only a handful of rebels had surrendered, apparently because assembly points were also manned by Namibian security forces. Some chose instead to make their own way over the border...