Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BORDER CROSSINGS and check-points punctuated the 24-hour Paris to Warsaw train ride. The car had filled up in West Germany with Polish families returning from visits with relatives. Following tearful good-byes, lively conversation picked up in my compartment. Passengers fussed with overstuffed suitcases, fearful that they might burst open. Each family brought several large pieces of luggage stuffed with clothes and food. Cartons of orange juice spilled out of the purse of the young woman sitting next to me. I asked about the many parcels. "We have nothing," a Polish woman explained...
...that drift northward from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest has not yet been proved. Mulroney, however, has promised to push the issue with the White House, most likely after the U.S. election in November. The Liberal government committed itself to halving emissions on its side of the border by 1994, but Canadian officials doubt that Washington will do the same. Some U.S. experts think the U.S. might agree to install scrubbers on some aging smokestacks. Says Doran: "Mulroney's going to have to make some progress." "He has to get something beyond just 'further discussion...
...relationship doesn't suggest any degree of compliance or servility. The fact of the matter is, if I were the President I would wake up every morning and say, "Thank God for Canada. Now what can I do for Canada?"; Can you imagine having a neighbor on your border like Canada? This is an extremely valuable relationship back and forth. But like all valuable relationships, it must never be taken for granted...
...thaw between Bonn and East Berlin this year has contrasted with the deepening chill between the superpowers. Honecker has seemed intent on pursuing detente despite the U.S.-Soviet deadlock. An unprecedented number of political and cultural delegations have exchanged visits across a barbed-wire border that was virtually impenetrable. So far this year, West German banks have extended credits, backed by Bonn, totaling $330 million to East Germany, which, in turn, has eased some restrictions on travel and allowed more than 30,000 of its citizens to emigrate to the West. Thus, even if the news that Honecker had postponed...
...blow fell hardest on the East Germans, who were still resentful over the Soviet-led boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Faces visibly dropped as news of the canceled visit passed down a line of pensioners waiting at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing in East Berlin. "Have you heard?" said one elderly woman. "The trip is off." Holding back tears, her companion replied, "I knew it." Reacting later, an outspoken young East German writer offered a more bitter assessment: "Honecker has bowed to Soviet pressure again." Explained a Western official in the East German capital: "There is almost nothing...