Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
...nurtured by our inability or unwillingness to see it through the eyes of the victim. Imagine, if you will, that you are an immigrant from Mexico who looks northward toward the United States in search of a job to feed your family. First, you have to get across the border; and, despite what a few conservative lawmakers would have us believe, that is always difficult and often dangerous...
Anyway, Salvador begins with buffoonery, as a down-and-out photojournalist (James Woods) journeys to EI Salvador with his slob friend (Jim Belushi) in search when this dynamic duo are hassled by border guards and confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would...
...since the 1971 India-Pakistan war had such a massive face-off occurred along their heavily fortified border. By early last week, the New Delhi government had deployed 350,000 soldiers in three northern states and Pakistan had positioned...
Millions of wheezing, watery-eyed, coughing West Germans have learned that they share more than a common border and language with East Germany. They also share pollution, notably the kind that comes from East German power plants, which burn lignite, a high-polluting form of coal. Last week a stagnant high- pressure system trapped foul East German air over West Germany for several days...