Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swan eggs. In one of the more elaborate wildlife trades to date, Idaho sent 50 chukar partridges to North Dakota, which sent 150 sharp-tailed grouse to Kansas, which sent 50 wild turkeys to Idaho. The trading has even taken on an international flavor. Michigan made an across-the-border swap with Canada: wild turkeys for moose. "It's like trading baseball cards," says Steven Gray, an Ohio wildlife official. "Say I have a Pete Rose and you have a Dwight Gooden. Arkansas has wild turkeys and wants ruffed grouse. We've got ruffed grouse...
...reconnaissance planes making a routine sweep over Lebanon, shot down the Soviet-made MiG-23s in Syrian airspace. The Israeli pilots said later that they had thought the MiGs were heading directly toward them. The Syrians immediately began to bring SA-2 missile batteries into positions along their border with Lebanon. Even more ominous, they transported SA-6 and SA-8 mobile missile batteries into Lebanon to positions along the Damascus-Beirut Highway and around Baalbek. The Israelis, concerned that the Syrian reinforcements would make Israeli reconnaissance flights exceedingly dangerous, asked the U.S. for help. Acknowledging to U.S. Envoy Richard...
After reportedly receiving from Murphy vague Israeli assurances that such air clashes would be avoided in the future, Assad withdrew the mobile missile batteries from Lebanon. That gesture eased tensions somewhat, but Assad left the SA-2s in place within Syria along the Lebanese border, perpetuating Israeli fears that the reconnaissance flights would still be threatened...
...come from just part of the pie, and more than half of that portion goes to the military. The ax would thus fall mightily on many unprotected programs citizens have come to expect from Government: the National Park Service, student loans, Amtrak, air-traffic controllers, federal prisons, the FBI, border patrols, medical research, farm supports, transit aid, Coast Guard missions and countless other programs. In addition, the new legislation will hinder recent federal efforts to catch spies, improve security at U.S. embassies, curb the flow of drugs and fly sorties with the space shuttle. Even then, critics argue, military manpower...
...American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo has already been optioned for the movies by Jane Fonda, who plans to portray Winslow. How is Fuentes, currently in residence at Harvard, enjoying success north of the border? "You don't have too much time to stop and say 'Hey, I'm a celebrity,' because such things mean nothing in the face of death," he observes. "I have little time and I want to use it well...