Word: border
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet leader also announced wide-ranging plans to continue the Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan, ease tensions along the Russian-Chinese border, make improvements in human rights in the Soviet Union and clean up the world environment...
...Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city near the Turkish border, stacks of red, black or unfinished wood coffins were piled on street corners...
...peacekeepers started patrolling the border between Lebanon and Israel, but then in 1982 another war broke...
...Moscow has built the republic into a leading chemical-production center. One result is chronic air pollution. "The air is so bad, you can no longer see Mount Ararat," complains a Yerevan resident, referring to the snow-peaked 16,945-ft. mountain some 30 miles away across the Turkish border...
...unbreakable union of free republics, joined together forever by great Russia . . ." At 6 a.m. each day, the opening lines of the Soviet state anthem ring out in Russian from radios across the vast country. They are heard by reindeer-herding Chukchi tribesmen in Siberia, Buryat farmers near the Mongolian border and Estonian fishermen by the Baltic Sea. The words project an illusion of homogeneity that Moscow finds increasingly difficult to maintain...