Word: border
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state's blue laws will soon be retired. A group of store owners is challenging the prohibition against Sunday liquor sales, claiming the law is arbitrary and violates their state and federal constitutional rights to due process. Currently, store owners within 10 miles of the New Hampshire border are granted exemptions, and during the holiday season some counties--Middlesex County included--allow Sunday openings...
That galvanized ethnic Albanians. The Liberation Army built up a concentration of forces near the Albanian border, and with an escape route closer to hand, the guerrillas grew more brazen, attacking Serb police and military camps. Four rebels maintaining a checkpoint at the border village of Smonica two weeks ago were cocky with confidence they could take on the Serbs. "I hate them so much that if I fired my gun up in the air, the bullet would find its own way right between some Serb's eyes," said one of the guards, cradling his rifle. "Every day people come...
...next stage of expansion, the candidates will include Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, three former Soviet republics that border Russia itself. Russian officials from Boris Yeltsin on down swear they absolutely, positively will not tolerate Baltic membership in the Atlantic alliance. This stage, two or three years from now, could mean a return to some form of East-West cold war. And since nuclear weapons are the only way NATO could defend the Baltic states against a threat from Russia, it could also mean a return to the terrible days when thermonuclear missile forces confronted each other across European borders...
These included S & S Restaurant and Deli, Chili's Bar and Grill, Crimson Sports Grille, Border Cafe and Druid Restaurant...
...year-old's health had been failing. A stroke in 1995 paralyzed much of his left side, he was taking medicine for a heart complaint, and he suffered from chronic malaria. For the past three weeks he had been hustled between safe houses near the Thai border to avoid shelling. As government forces aided by growing legions of Khmer Rouge defectors closed in, Pol Pot must have realized the end was near...