Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet on Monday voted to begin another release of prisoners taken out of Lebanon by withdrawing occupation forces. Two days later, some 300 Lebanese dressed incongruously in track suits sprinted from cell blocks in the prison of Atlit to a caravan of eleven buses that hauled them across the border to Ras al Bayada, the northernmost checkpoint of the remaining Israeli "security" (i.e., occupation) zone in southern Lebanon. There, Israeli soldiers untied white plastic ropes from the prisoners' wrists and turned them over one by one to Red Cross officials for release...
Morningside Park is a kind of uneasy border between two worlds in northern & Manhattan. On the highlands to the west, atop Morningside Heights, are Columbia University, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and graying, middle-class residential neighborhoods. In the valley to the east stretches Harlem. Separating them are the steep green slopes of the park, a wooded no- man's-land that even policemen hesitate to enter. It was on the eastern edge of the park one rainy night last month that Edmund Perry, 17, was shot to death during an alleged attack on a young policeman...
Nowhere is that sentiment more dramatically highlighted than along the southern border, where illegal immigration is deeply woven into the local fabric. Some 3,000 U.S. border patrol agents maintain the southern frontier, yet INS officials admit that with bolstered forces the U.S. could significantly reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says...
...about rough-and-tumble measures. A lot of people who are now advocating a counterterror capability have in mind our emulating the Israelis. But America is not under enough of a threat for us to do that. We're not a small country with powerful enemies just over the border. So our capacity consistently to carry out pre-emption and retaliation is certainly not assured. Democracies forgo certain options by the nature of their societies and the whole set of ideals they represent...
...first heads of state Ronald Reagan cabled for assistance in the TWA hostage standoff was not a trusted ally of the U.S. but a frequent diplomatic adversary, Syrian President Hafez Assad. As a Soviet-armed Arab state sharing a tense 50-mile border with Israel, Syria rarely, if ever, sees eye to eye with Washington on Middle East policy. But the Administration was betting that in the current crisis U.S. interests converged in many ways with Assad's. By agreeing last week to act as the mediator in the release of 39 U.S. hostages from their Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim...