Word: border
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April 30, President Nixon announces the invasion of border regions of Cambodia by South Vietnamese and American troops, inciting student demonstrations and strikes across the nation. On May 3, a mass meeting of students, Faculty and staff votes to hold a University-wide strike...
...joined the people on their tractors and rode to the border. Galbraith says the police were conspicuously present every 15 yards for the rest of journey, and the Serbs made it safely to the border...
...throw it out of his state. The South Carolina legislator, a lawyer and popular fourth-term Democrat, had backed the video-machine operators ever since he took office in 1991; after all, they helped keep many small businesses alive in his rural, job-starved district skirting the North Carolina border. But this year Jennings listened to another part of his constituency, spouses and children of addicted gamblers who begged him to back a bill banning the machines...
...McGirk calls "a profound mood of relief that India is no longer alone in being ostracized." Whether such emotions are justified, given the plunging rupee in India and the boarded-up banks in Pakistan, is another question. McGirk also reports a "serious risk" of conflict in the disputed border region of Kashmir -- claims and counterclaims of militant infiltration that "would not go nuclear immediately" but may eventually risk the world's first atomic war. The subcontinent had better celebrate while...
...official: Pakistan has followed her neighbor into the nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...