Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials at the DEA and the U.S. attorney's office said they believe that more than half the cocaine distributed in the country now floods in through Los Angeles. Colombian drug groups bring the drug across the border from Mexico, and Los Angeles street gangs distribute it in more than 40 U.S. cities, they have said...
...Vietnam--Hundreds of aging trucks and buses rumbled across the Cambodian border into Vietnam yesterday carrying thousands of soldiers in what Hanoi says is the pullout of its last 26,000 troops from Cambodia...
Vietnamese schools were closed to mark the return, and relatives of soldiers ran across the border...
...diplomatic ballet, however, was a mere sideshow to the drama of the border crossings. When the order came from Budapest at midnight last Sunday, Hungarian border guards blocking the 600-yard crossing at Hegyeshalom to the Austrian town of Nickelsdorf smiled and began to wave the refugees through. Across they came, on foot and bicycles, in German Wartburgs and Czech Skodas. Some drivers paused to put black tape over the first D and the R on their DDR vehicle-identification stickers, leaving a single D for Deutschland. "What a Monday!" cried an Austrian radio newscaster. "Boris Becker wins...
...most are unlikely to be on the dole for long. Potential employers quickly descended on the camps, seeking to hire everyone from welders and machinists to carpenters, bakers and locksmiths. In the Schoppingen area near the Dutch border, there were 5,000 job proposals chasing just 1,500 refugees. "I am swimming in offers," said Dennis Kiesewalter, 22, a roofer. "At home I was told about unemployment here." The outpouring of jobs probably startled some West Germans as well; the unemployment rate currently stands at almost 7%. The fact is, however, that the East Germans offer employers certain advantages that...