Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons behind his funding a war there. The causus belli is the current government of Nicaragua which Reagan wants to overthrow. Communist revolutionaries, the Nicaraguan leaders have tied themselves closely with the Soviet Union. President Reagan fears that with another Soviet backed country very close to the American border, that other being Cuba, the safety of the United States is compromised...
...Berlin. In the past, foreign diplomats entering or leaving the East sector of the city had only to flash a red identity card issued by the East Germans. By requiring passports rather than cards, the East Germans apparently hoped to establish that the Berlin Wall is an international border --in direct contravention of postwar agreements...
...state celebrant; indeed, so sedulous is his enthusiasm for Mississippi that one need only ride along a few short miles listening to him before the bitterweed growing wild on the shoulders of the road begins to look like daisies. "I get homesick when I have to cross a border," White says, and he means...
...foreign reaction to South African border raids. We cannot be held to ransom by the U.S. or the international community when it comes to the protection of our security. We simply do not understand how it is possible for the U.S. to attack bases and terrorists in Libya, to proclaim that the U.S. will protect U.S. interests and citizens against any form of terrorism wherever it occurs, and then urge all governments in the world to do the same, but when we do it and, with all respect, do it more professionally than they do, the U.S. blames...
...discourage guerrilla raids by Khmer resistance fighters based in Thailand, the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government is continuing to work at sealing off the border with Thailand by building walls and ditches reinforced with barbed wire and mines. But even if the huge project is completed, it will be almost impossible for the Kampucheans to close the entire 300-mile frontier...