Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels of the army and the police. The main external threat so far has been the African National Congress, which since 1962 has been waging a low- level guerrilla war from bases in neighboring states. South Africa has effectively neutralized the A.N.C. through agreements, economic pressure and occasional cross-border military strikes. While terror bombings take place and mines, hand grenades and AK-47 assault rifles still kill and wound South Africans, mostly in township violence, the flow of weapons into the country is not enough for an armed insurrection...
...uproar caused by blatant voting irregularities in Mexico's largest state, Chihuahua, reached all the way to the Rio Grande last week. A crowd of 5,000 Mexicans staged a 24-hr. protest on the Bridge of the Americas, the heavily traveled border crossing that separates Chihuahua's main city, Ciudad Juarez, from El Paso. They demanded that the official results of the July 6 elections for governor, state legislature and mayoral seats be nullified. The demonstration caused long delays for the estimated 600 semitrailers that cross the bridge daily...
...main reasons they only give you a week is to make it physically impossible to visit the "forbidden areas" of Upper Burma. The government has no control over its border areas nor much of the northern part of country where hill tribes live. The famous Golden Triangle, where much of the world's opium is produced, is the intersection of Thailand, Laos, and Burma, and the area is primarily controlled by various guerrilla groups and drug smugglers. The most common smuggling route, now that many Southeast Asian countries are cracking down, is through Burma to Bangladesh...
...thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees himself in boardroom costume, however, seems unlikely to grasp the concepts of weary connivance...
...crucial clause allows the Soviet Union to reclaim its property by paying a large sum in gold before the lease expires. Brezhnev, a stonehearted landlord, rubs his hands and plots eviction. Will Scott and the female bass-fiddle player who has befriended him make it across the right border? Will the property end up in the wrong hands? The questions are well worth pursuing to their odd conclusions. Rival thrillers may offer a more glamorously seedy cast, but name another book that ends by giving its readers a jolly good cross-country ride -- and a portion of Baked Alaska...