Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miss affair. The coqueros were content to ship cocaine into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine, and the wholesale price of a kilo in Colombia plunged...
...dumped it into the Caribbean. In the following weeks they eliminated 32 cocaine- processing plants in the llanos, the sparsely populated areas along the Brazilian border, accessible only by foot, boat or light aircraft...
Says Spanish Political Writer Manuel Leguineche: "The Gibraltarians used to have a kind of love-hate feeling toward the Spaniards. Now it's one of hate-hate." Indeed last week eggs, tomatoes and oranges were thrown at the first Spanish vehicle to cross the border, a motorcycle carrying a young man and his girlfriend...
...Israeli troops promises to help repair Israel's relations with Egypt, which has long called for an Israeli pullout. Earlier this month Israelis were allowed to participate in the Cairo Book Fair for the first time in two years. Last month the two countries resumed negotiations over disputed border areas after nearly two years of silence. But there was a failure to resolve the major issue of Taba, a 250-acre wedge of palmy beachfront on the eastern edge of the Sinai, which is claimed by both countries. Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sounded apprehensive last week about future...
Grechko's opponents prevailed, happily, and no military option was exercised, nuclear or otherwise. But the long border with China remained a highly volatile area...