Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open a rift between the U.S. and Western Europe over the trade embargo that Washington imposed on Nicaragua earlier this month. At the same time, Nicaraguan troops were foraying along the frontier with Honduras in a continuing effort to contain anti-Sandinista contra rebels ensconced in that border region. Closer to home, yet another challenge was looming for the Sandinistas: slowly deepening resentment among many Nicaraguans against their revolutionary leadership...
...Ortega's transatlantic tour was useful to Nicaragua largely as a public relations exercise, the struggle on the country's northern border had more concrete significance. The contras, short of supplies after the denial of U.S. covert aid last October, have gradually withdrawn most of their forces to Honduran base camps to await help from a network of private sources (see box). Beginning early this month, Nicaraguan infantry backed by artillery began zeroing in on the main contra camp, known as Las Vegas. Finally an estimated 1,200 Nicaraguan troops launched an unprecedented cross-border assault reaching up to four...
...last Friday's deadline drew near, the refugees began to mass at the crossing posts along Nigeria's western border with Benin. Their mattresses, chairs, plastic containers and enamel cooking pots spilled out of trailers, trucks and minibuses. Many of those who made it across the border had first to surrender any supplies of sugar, milk and detergents--officially described as "essential commodities"--to Nigerian immigration and customs officials. No one was permitted to leave with more than $22 worth of naira, Nigeria's currency. The scenes at posts along Nigeria's borders with Niger and Chad were much...
...deadline of 6 p.m. local time passed, the Nigerian government sealed all of the country's land borders, trapping hundreds of thousands of refugees. Nigerian Radio, quoting official sources, said the illegal immigrants, many of whom are destitute, would be allowed to leave the country only by land or sea. Shortly before the deadline, refugees on the border with Benin, who had been waiting for four days without food or water, began protesting. Nigerian police waded in with truncheons, and 200 people were injured in the melee. Road accidents have claimed at least 13 lives as refugees have hurried...
Many of those being expelled had been thrown out in 1983 but had slipped back into the country by bribing border guards or crossing over at remote, unguarded spots. Some even returned by stowing away on ships. More returnees can almost certainly be expected following the latest expulsion. "I will have to come back," explained Alhaji Idrissa as he waited to make the crossing into his native Niger. "Nigeria is the only place where I can survive...