Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Honduras, Mexico City Bureau Chief Harry Kelly took the final leg of his journey to the Nicaraguan border aboard a U.S. Chinook helicopter. Like Allis, he found himself flying on the lining of his stomach. "Chinooks ride like New York subway trains going flat out," says Kelly. By week's end, however, all the careering about had got the correspondents safely to their destinations -- and got the story...
...Amin. He has invaded Chad twice, prompting French President Francois Mitterrand to send French troops to the landlocked African country. Libya and France signed an agreement in 1984 to withdraw each nation's forces. France did so, but Gaddafi promptly embarrassed Mitterrand by reneging. Libya fought a minor border war with Egypt in 1977 and supplied materiel to coup leaders in Burkina Faso in 1983. Gaddafi is suspected of having mined the Red Sea in 1984 (18 ships were damaged), and continues to use Libyan diplomatic pouches to export weapons. Says the State Department's Oakley: "Terrorism...
Sutton showed outstanding control and location with his fastball, curve, and slider, getting Jumbo batters to make futile stabs at pitches on the border of the strike zone. Rarely did he fall behind in the count, never giving up a walk...
...COURSE, the conflict on the Nicaraguan border is hardly a conflagration. It has been more like a smouldering cigarette butt, so far. But these fires have a way of getting out of control rather quickly. Remember how low key the conflict was in Vietnam in 1964, and how quickly it overwhelmed not only that nation, but Laos and Cambodia as well...
...roamed the Nicaraguan countryside, mostly across the northern third of the country. Today only about 4,000 contras remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been pushed back into their Honduran sanctuaries. Last week, in raids timed to show the flag to Congress, 3,000 contras infiltrated across the Honduran border to stage attacks on civilian and military targets. One U.S. intelligence official scoffed that the contras succeeded in making "a lot of noise while using vast quantities of ammunition with very little effect...