Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that drug abuse isn't worth attacking too. But anyone genuinely concerned with the drug problem would spend more time and money on drug education and rehabilitation and less on attempts to punish drug dealers. Yet Reagan continues to pour money into border patrol programs that have proven utterly ineffective while there remains a three to six-month waiting list for treatment at New York City drug addiction centers...
...later, in November 1982, another entrepreneur completed a 326-room, $20 million hotel at Taba. The builder, Eli Papouchado, knew that ownership of the land was disputed, but says he went ahead with government approval. Israel bases its claim to Taba on a 1906 Turkish map that delineated the border between Egypt and Palestine, which was then a province of the Ottoman empire. According to that document, the line ran close to three palm trees that still exist. The Egyptian counterclaim hinges on a 1915 map drawn up by British military surveyors, including T.E. Lawrence, the legendary Lawrence of Arabia...
...Israelis reject the 1915 version, claiming it was faked by the British in order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries...
...Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, the Soviet Union saw political instability on its border and the danger of unfriendly regimes coming to power. So Moscow, thumbing its nose at world opinion, moved in with tanks and paratroopers. In the other cases, there was either an act or an accusation of spying. The Soviets are preoccupied with espionage in a way that is difficult for Americans to understand. As custodians of a closed and paranoid political system, they are obsessed with protecting their own secrets and finding out those of their enemies...
...seizures came as speculation grew that the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was readying its long-awaited "final offensive." During the week, Iran launched a new ground attack across the Iraqi border in the north and used frogmen to sabotage an Iraqi offshore radar station...