Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is my people, my home and my heart," said Dr. Haing S. Ngor, on the Thai border of his troubled homeland, Cambodia. A year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of a news photographer's harrowing escape from the Communist Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields, the physician turned movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh...
...having kept Costa Rica afloat despite a $4.4 billion foreign debt. Arias also portrayed himself as the peace candidate, upholding his country's policy of neutrality while insisting that Costa Rica, which disbanded its army in 1948, must hold the line against the pro-Marxist Sandinista regime across the border in Nicaragua...
...Harvard these trends have made themselves felt. Areas of psychology that border the natural sciences have captured most of Harvard's attention in recent years. Younger faculty members, such as Professor Stephen Kosslyn and Associate Professor James R. Stellar, are not the white-coated, ink blot-bearing researchers of late-night television. They use computers to study behavior and want to discover the biological causes of human action. Older members of the department say the work of the two men would not even have been recognized as psychological research 20 years...
South African police and military on Jan. 1 began conducting security searches at the border that severely restricted the daily flow of supplies into the enclave nation. But relations between the countries had been tense for some time. Jonathan had irritated the fiercely anti-Communist South African government by inviting the Soviet Union and other Marxist countries to open embassies in Maseru. He had also given refuge to guerrillas from the outlawed African National Congress, which seeks to overthrow South Africa's white-minority government...
Gilliam has called Brazil "Walter Mitty meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like...