Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whoever wins, we win." U.S. officials contend that despite disputes over trade barriers, U.S. investment in Canada and environmental issues such as acid rain, relations between the two neighbors have taken a turn for the better. But the American economic upsurge has only just started to spill across the border into Canada. Economists in Ottawa fear that as Canadian interest rates climb ever higher to keep Space with American lending rates, the fragile Canadian recovery of the past 15 months could be choked...
...soldiers of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, stationed in the strategic Fulda Gap near the border between East and West Germany, life in uniform has never been easy. Most towns in the area are small, provincial and often dull. East German and Soviet border patrols are a constant presence. Above all, the American servicemen at Fulda are aware that the 30-mile gap is a likely invasion route in the event of a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
Some 65 miles south of Nicaragua's border with Honduras, at a cluster of settlements known as Tasba Pri (Free Land), Sandinista officials hail what they describe as a model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above...
...commander of Iraq's First Army Corps, however, confirms that heavy fighting is taking place farther north on the Iranian side of the border. "The Kurds have been very active and very successful recently, so the Iranian army is trying to clean them up," says General Nazar Abdul-Kerim. Indeed, it is summer, and the harvest is finished, so the Kurds have time for fighting. By the same token, the Iranians find the warm but dry weather good for conducting military operations through passes that are choked with snow and mud for more than half the year. The general...
...Iran is to crush the Kurdish rebels once and for all. But it, too, wants to use the Kurds to create a diversion for its primary foe. If Iran launches another major offensive, it will probably be in the south, near Basra. By attacking the Kurds along the northern border, the Iranians hope to make the Iraqis move some of their forces away from Basra...