Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with mortars, heavy machine guns and mines, then scramble along steep, rocky trails through an eerily deserted landscape. Stealing past a government fort and fields still littered with bomb fragments and mines, ignoring the distant thunder of MiGs and flares on the horizon, they cross the highlands along the border and descend toward battle...
...people of Dobanday quickly discovered that their attackers did not make war by the gentlemanly rules favored by their imperial predecessors. "My uncle fought the British on the border after his father was killed by them in battle," recalls Haji Khan, a rheumy-eyed septuagenarian. "But the British did not kill old people, children and women; they would not aim their artillery at innocent people." The Communists, by contrast, massacred civilians. Worst of all, when government troops finally broke through to Dobanday, a Soviet adviser marched into the central mosque, tore up the Koran and put a torch...
Meanwhile, in Nicaragua's northern border regions, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) was forging ahead with a new campaign. TIME's Jon Lee Anderson traveled to meet the rebels in the remote Bocay River valley in the department of Jinotega. Ferried to a rendezvous point controlled by the rebels about 50 miles from the border with Honduras, he met with the F.D.N.'s top military commander, Enrique Bermúdez Varela. Anderson reported that the rebel troops appeared "well fed, well armed and confident of eventual victory," despite their apparent loss of U.S. covert support. According...
Despite all those impediments to good cheer, 11th Cavalry morale is higher than the watchtowers that dot the border. Reenlistment, a key index of soldier satisfaction, is better than in recent memory: so far this year, some 400 men and women have signed on for another tour. Says Colonel Joe G. Driskill, the 11th Cavalry's commander: "For the first time, we're in a position to turn soldiers away...
...defend the Western allies. Says John Kominicki, a reporter with the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes: "A few years ago, a lot of soldiers had some strong doubts about being able to hold the enemy. Now they're damned sure that any Red who steps across that border is going to get kicked back...