Word: bordered
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...assure the security of northern Israel. Peres advocated an expansion of the role in southern Lebanon of the United Nations peace-keeping force, whose mandate was renewed by the U.N. Security Council last week. He also said that he wants the region immediately to the north of the Israeli border to be guarded by the South Lebanon Army, the mainly Christian, Israeli-supported militia now headed by General Antoine Lahd. Since the Lebanese government opposes such a role for the Lahd force, Peres suggested that Israel might be content to have the group incorporated into the regular Lebanese Army...
...Syrian forces from Lebanon, Peres said he does not expect Syria's 40,000 troops to pull out completely once the Israelis are gone. He did insist that they refrain from expanding their position, while also trying to prevent Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from returning to the border region. Said Peres: "We do not look for any favors from the Syrian side. It is up to them to decide whether they want to wake up every morning and find our forces against theirs only 16 miles from Damascus...
...United States to shut down its School of the Americas, training ground for thousands of Latin American soldiers. And in Costa Rica, the fragile democracy is chafing under Washington's efforts to militarize the country, and it refused a recent U.S. request to extend an airstrip near its border with Nicaragua...
...trigger a retaliatory attack by Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria, however, may offer vague assurances that Israel's northern border will be protected from terrorist attacks. One possibility includes deploying the Lebanese Army in the south and beefing up the 5,700-man U.N. peace-keeping force in the area...
More than two years after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, some 22,000 Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon. Their purpose: to keep Palestine Liberation Organization fighters from filtering back and posing a fresh threat to Israel's northern border towns and settlements. But since the Israeli army in Lebanon withdrew from the Beirut area south to the Awali River a year ago, 60 soldiers have been killed and 469 wounded in Lebanese attacks. Every month brings about 70 to 80 new assaults. "We are on a spiral to nowhere," says a prominent Sidon citizen. "The more the Israelis...