Word: bordered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President agreed with Mulroney on the need to eliminate barriers to U.S.-Canadian trade. The two men joined in a pledge to fight protectionism and to take steps to ease the flow of both goods and investment across the border. Both countries asked special representatives to have their first recommendations ready in six months...
...Sergio Garcia Ramirez met with Edwin Meese, his U.S. counterpart, on future joint drug-control operations. Meanwhile, on Highway 111 near Camarena's home in the California town of Calexico, a billboard put up by his friends carried a dire message for those who are thinking of crossing the border...
...also discussed a situation closer to the Argentine leader's home: Chile, now the only major military dictatorship left in South America. Argentina, which shares a 2,500-mile border with Chile, is known to be deeply concerned that the Moscow-leaning Chilean Communist Party has with increasing stridency voiced support for "all means of struggle," including armed warfare, against the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. A U.S. official described Alfonsin's assessment of the problem as "not alarmist. He didn't urge the U.S. to take any action...
...Vietnamese push, which got under way last November, gained additional muscle after two key resistance camps fell in January and February. Hanoi had moved in two additional divisions for the border operation, bringing the number of Vietnamese troops in the area to almost 60,000. The Vietnamese also conscripted tens of thousands of Kampucheans to build roads and lengthen airstrips in the region...
Hope glimmered faintly last week that the often bloody problem of autonomy- seeking Sikhs in Punjab, an Indian state on the border with Pakistan, may finally be easing a bit. Nearly ten months after the Indian army stormed the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, the central shrine of the 15 million Sikhs, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi announced the release of eight prominent Sikh leaders taken into custody at the time of the raid, in which 600 were killed on both sides. Those freed included Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, president of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. Longowal...