Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were very nearly waylaid by a totally unexpected diplomatic incident in the far northern reaches of the remote Bering Sea. There, on Sept. 12, the Frieda K, a 101-ft. supply vessel with five Alaskans on board, accidentally strayed inside Soviet territorial waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched formal protests in Washington and Moscow last week...
Under ordinary Lebanese circumstances, such lapses would border on the criminally negligent. Yet the car-attack was not the first, but the third such strike against American installations in Beirut--following the unforgottably tragic destruction of the U.S. embassy 17 months ago and the more recent Marine compound bombing which killed 241 Americans...
Another step the U.S. could take to show true concern about stopping terrorism would be to limit its own terrorist acts in Central America. The CIA's unsecret secret war against the Nicaraguan regime, a war that has led us to mine Nicaraguan harbors, sponsor cross-border contra raids, and wink at Americans illegally selling their services as mercenaries against the Sandinistas, has made a mockery of our efforts to get other nations to support our efforts for international coordination against terrorism...
...from the Sacred Heart. "We tried a dog." Exuding the charm of a used car salesman and the taste of John Rivers, Sister Serena markets her "kids" like a Romco television ad. "How about a conversation piece?" she asks, singling out her single Black charge. "Something South of the Border?" Our caricatured Ozzie and Harriet demur. "We already have a gardener." Finally they take Mouse, and Piper in short order leads what has become by now his gang in a reunion-bound break from the Bleeding Heart...
Still, even two border incursions do not make for all-out war. A little perspective is in order. One gets the impression from the swirl of controversy, from the charges and countercharges in the air, that one side is about to banish the Constitution, the other God. Hardly. The battles of the past few weeks amount not to war but to border rectification...