Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police sealed off all exits to the city for hours after the shooting, called a national alert, and stepped up patrols at border crossings. It was the largest manhunt in Sweden's history, but as the week began, no arrests had been made. Police speculated that the murder might have been committed by any number of disaffected groups, from Croatian nationalists to West German terrorist factions...
...really very tired." Sure, but just tell us, did you really pee on Letterman, Mike? "The show, not the star. Mike's been well trained. He does 110 tricks. It's all on your fact sheets." Yeah, yeah, we know. He's a seven- year-old border collie with one brown eye and one blue one. Down and Out in Beverly Hills is the biggest picture in the country, and his performance as the neurotic mutt Matisse was "Oscar-caliber work," according to the New York Times. But your fans are wondering if it's all going to your head...
...Iraqis might have moved more rapidly if they were not concerned that the Iranian bridgehead at Fao was a feint to draw off troops from Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Across the nearby border, Iran has amassed 200,000 soldiers. To have the city cut off would be a stunning and perhaps fatal blow to the Baghdad government. As the battle at Fao raged, Iraqi fighters shot down an Iranian plane on a flight from Tehran to Ahvaz. All 46 aboard, including eight members of Iran's parliament, perished...
...appearances can be deceptive, they can also be highly cost efficient, or so the East Germans apparently think. Last week the West German government reported that East Germany has abandoned its attempt to man with armed guards the more than 700 watchtowers along the roughly 850-mile German border. Instead, the East Germans are now using life-size cardboard soldiers to scare off would-be Western invaders--and potential defectors. How many of the tower guards are bogus is anyone's guess. "Sometimes they are placed in the towers for only a few hours," says a spokesman for the West...
...Although East Berlin ordered the removal of fence-mounted shrapnel mines and automatic self-firing devices last year, other obstacles remain. Officials raised the electrified metal fences by more than one-third, to 9.8 feet, installed sensitive alarm devices and deployed a record 1,429 German Shepherds along the border. So far, those measures have proved successful. Only 30 people escaped in 1985, down from 54 a year earlier...