Word: border
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army would catch the contras at their weakest. Cut adrift by their U.S. patrons and torn by internal feuding, the guerrillas barely resemble a credible fighting force. About 6,000 rebels remain in Honduras, where the government is increasingly eager to see them leave, or are camped along the border. Only some 1,500 troops have filtered back into Nicaragua toward their ^ traditional bases of operation...
...Amur, at Blagoveshchensk, officials are negotiating a deal under which Soviet hydroelectric power will be exchanged for Chinese goods and produce. In April 76 Chinese peasants, accompanied by interpreters, crossed the border at Suifenhe to spend six months demonstrating to Siberian farmers their techniques for planting, growing and harvesting. The Chinese were greeted with a brass band and welcoming banners when they arrived in Pogranichny. The Inner Mongolian town of Manzhouli is talking about a similar arrangement with Zabaikalsk, just over the strip of border that is still patrolled by Soviet guard dogs and marked by watchtowers and electrified fences...
...U.S.S.R.'s penchant, especially during the 1970s, for throwing its military weight around in the world. The principal examples -- what Chinese officials call the Three Obstacles to normalization of relations between the two countries -- are the Soviet Union's deployment of more than 50 divisions along the Chinese northern border, its occupation of Afghanistan and its support for Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea. Gorbachev, who is eager to hold a summit with the 83- year-old Deng, has been making, or at least hinting at, concessions on all three issues. Last year the Kremlin removed one division from...
...when he called Dukakis "very dangerous" and "irresponsible" on nuclear arms issues -- which could prove tougher to live down than Bush's description of Reagan's "voodoo economics." But Gore made nice enough in his postprimary endorsement to be invited to Brookline for an interview. He helps in the Border States and the South, possibly even in California, where his future-oriented interests (fiber optics and the greenhouse effect) might make up for the entertainment industry's unhappiness with his wife's much publicized campaign against rock lyrics...
After dominating Mexican politics for 59 years, the P. R. I. loses its ballot- box hegemony as opposition candidates make historic gains. -- An interview with the apparent winner, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. -- Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott visits the fortified Sino- Soviet border and reports on the prospect of replacing guns with trade. -- An oil rig explodes off the coast of Scotland...