Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot or by truck from primitive dwellings in the northwestern reaches of Ethiopia. In the past, those who managed to survive the arduous trek across the famine-ravaged land then had to endure, sometimes for years, squalid life in sprawling refugee camps on the Sudanese side of the border. They are called Falashas in Ethiopia, which in the Amharic language means "strangers" or "ones without a place." But they have always had a spiritual home: Israel. Although these Ethiopians are black, they are also Jews, and they long for the Promised Land. The Israeli government was forced to reveal last...
...early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed the Pasvik River on the Soviet-Norwegian border; it headed southwest toward Lake Inari in Finland, where it disappeared...
...hour after midnight on Christmas morning, the onslaught began. Residents of Rithysen (pop. 66,000), a Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base near the country's border with Thailand, were awakened by the sound of artillery and mortar shells exploding in and around their sprawling bamboo village. By 7 a.m. an estimated 1,000 Vietnamese infantrymen, led by armored vehicles, had fought their way into Rithysen (also known as Nong Samet), about 140 miles east of Bangkok. Their aim: to destroy the camp and other centers of opposition to the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government of Heng Samrin...
...blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after year, the Vietnamese attacked the resistance centers during the dry season and fell back when the rains came. This year the Communist Khmer Rouge counterattacked during the rainy season, moving deep into Kampuchea and harassing Vietnamese troops and supply lines...
...three camps almost simultaneously, sending tens of thousands of Kampucheans fleeing into Thailand. The resistance forces staged a counterattack, though they were no match for the opposing Vietnamese troops. The Vietnamese attacks were denounced as "contemptible" by the U.S. and as "cruel and savage" by Thailand, which put its border forces on full alert. As in the past, the offensive is likely to continue until the monsoon returns in late spring. This time, however, the Vietnamese are evidently hoping to end their annual campaign in a far stronger position than in previous years...