Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union's Aeroflot, the impoverished and the war weary from Africa and the Middle East have arrived in East Berlin in droves. Most of them then hop on the elevated railway that connects East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station with West Berlin's Zoo station. Once over the border, the newcomers take advantage of a liberal provision in West German law that guarantees asylum to political refugees. In the first six months of this year alone, some 42,000 refugees, most of them Lebanese and Iranians, registered with West German authorities...
...refugees, contends that it is up to the Western allied forces, which still occupy West Berlin, to apply passport controls on their side. The allies refuse to do that on the grounds that it would amount to recognition of the boundary that divides the two Berlins as an international border. The irony, of course, is that West Berliners want East Berliners to close one door that has opened in the Wall...
...lovely senorita telegraphs three cowboy heroes she saw in a movie. To the rescue ride "Lucky Day" (Steve Martin), "Dusty Bottoms" (Chevy Chase) and "Ned Nederlander" (Martin Short), three bumbling actors who have just been fired by their Hollywood studio. They think they have been invited south of the border to sing, not shoot, but in the end they rally the villagers to throw out the desperadoes. The Magnificent Seven it is not; it is The Three Amigos, a comedy adventure due for Christmas that also features Martin in other roles: co-writer (with Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman, who provides...
...being driven through the Bekaa Valley. Bleary-eyed from a sleepless night, he was suddenly abandoned by his captors, who told him, "Start walking," then disappeared. His first uncertain steps seemed "like an eternity," he said later, until he made contact with Lebanese police and was whisked across the border to the protection of Syrian authorities and U.S. embassy officials in Damascus. It was there that he met Anderson's sister, Peggy Say, of Batavia, N.Y., who had gone to the Middle East to see if she could do anything to help secure her brother's release...
...possibility of regional war. There are contra camps in Costa Rica and Honduras. The contra leadership wants to increase its operations in Costa Rica because it is aware of the political sensitivities of the southern border. The potential for provoking an incident is much greater in Costa Rica than in Honduras because Costa Rica has more credibility. It has no army. The pretext could be that Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica or Honduras, opening the way for a U.S. intervention...