Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Berlin's La Belle disco, in which an American soldier was killed. The U.S. charged that Libyan diplomats based in East Berlin had helped plan the blast. But East Germany's passive acceptance of the new vigilance masked a determination to even the score. Last week East German border guards started demanding that Western diplomats show their passports in order to leave or enter East Berlin...
...They were trying to set up a negotiating link between Pretoria and the A.N.C. Though the Commonwealth team's leaders, onetime Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and former Nigerian Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo, were reluctant to admit it, their mission had been all but destroyed by the cross-border raids. Criticism was worldwide. The Reagan Administration expressed its "vigorous condemnation" of the attacks, which it described as an "outrage," and expelled a South African military attache. Canada recalled its ambassador, and Argentina broke off diplomatic relations, saying the Pretoria government "threatens international peace...
...latest allegations came at a time of mounting unrest between Israel and Syria. In recent weeks the Syrians have been building new tank and artillery emplacements in southern Lebanon. As Peres put it, Syrian forces have been steadily "creeping" toward Israel's northern border. Only last week Syrian- backed Lebanese guerrillas fired two Katyusha rockets across the border, wounding an Israeli and two of his children in Upper Galilee. Israel's costly 1982 war in Lebanon was supposed to have stopped such attacks...
...state boards to report new disciplinary actions swiftly, so that the information can be promptly entered into the system. This summer individual boards will begin hooking into the system, enabling them to check a doctor's record in a matter of minutes and crack down on would-be border skippers. The data will also be made available to the military medical system and hospitals. Says Galusha: "We've gone from the turkey quill and laborious manual searches to state of the art in the past two years. The net is tightening...
...ITALY. Border patrols halted 32 freight cars loaded with cattle, sheep and horses from Poland and Austria for nearly a week before forcing them to return. Worried inspectors found abnormally high levels of radiation in many of the 908 animals in the shipment. Italy later banned imports of meat, livestock and vegetables from most of Eastern Europe...