Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some degree, the Soviets have been giving mixed signals on the subject. Even as the border situation grew more threatening last week, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin offered to work with the U.S. to resolve regional conflicts, including Afghanistan. Said he: "We don't believe there is no solution to Afghanistan." The trouble is that Moscow would define the problem as "continued intervention from Pakistan." But once that matter is solved, "the problem is solved," Dobrynin contended, and the Soviets could then "take our troops home...
...like a scene out of Woody Allen's Bananas. A ragged band of soldiers played The Yellow Rose of Texas in 110 degrees heat as two helicopters, their blades whipping up dust in the clearing, touched down at the base camp in Honduras, three miles from the Nicaraguan border. Out of one jumped Texas Governor Mark White, in combat boots and freshly pressed camouflage fatigues. Out of the other, a platoon of reporters, who quickly surrounded him. The Governor also brought 400 lbs. of Texas barbecued beef, 7,200 flour tortillas, 100 lbs. of pinto beans, and buckets of barbecue...
...menacing action began last Wednesday, on barren, rock-strewn ground marking a rare flat stretch of the rugged border between Marxist Nicaragua and U.S. ally Honduras. The oppressive quiet of early afternoon was broken by a buzz, quickly swelling into a roar. Out of a cloud of dust lumbered heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers, following an obvious invasion route north toward the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, some 80 miles away...
...what will the Nicaraguans be doing? Just watching and, if all goes according to Washington's script, perhaps shuddering a bit at the display of U.S. force near their border. Those tanks, for instance, were manned by soldiers of the Texas National Guard, playing the role of invading Sandinistas for the benefit of Honduran pilots, who carried out mock bombing and strafing runs against them (see box). Officially, the maneuvers are not even war games, just joint "training exercises." Pentagon officials go so far as to insist, with resolutely straight faces, that last week's "tank battle" and next week...
...between the big maneuvers, U.S. and Honduran soldiers nearly always have some small-scale training exercise in progress. Never before, however, have so many U.S. soldiers participated in the games or used such heavy equipment so close to Nicaragua (some of the tanks maneuvered within three miles of the border). Next week's amphibious landing, named Universal Trek '85, together with Big Pine III, represents the most intricate military exercise the U.S. has conducted in this hemisphere...