Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today's offer of amnesty reflects America's justifiable concern with controlling its 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Estimates put the number of illegal immigrants between four and six million, with about 60 percent of them coming from Mexico alone. Furthermore political upheaval, population growth projections, and economic squalor promise a continuing influx...
...have persuaded Honecker to open the gates a little. "A few months ago, you could have cut the mood here with a knife," says a Western diplomat in East Berlin. "The whole thing smacks of crisis management." But the exodus also enhances Honecker's image across the border as a more benign, if not exactly popular, patriarch who is willing to take risks for the sake of detente. Explains a West German official: "Honecker knows the road to other West European capitals goes through Bonn...
...that divide East and West Germany is still strong. Ulrich Plenzdorf, an East German novelist and playwright whose works sell on both sides of the Wall, argues that "no matter how many adjectives the system may use to describe itself, the 'German' remains." When a West German border guard once asked Leipzig Painter Bernhard Heisig how long he intended to stay in "Germany," Heisig promptly replied, "I never left...
...victims first in Florida and then as he fled to Nevada and back to the Northeast; after being shot twice, possibly with his own gun, during a struggle that occurred when two state policemen confronted him at a gas station; in Colebrook, N.H., ten miles from the Canadian border...
...Soviet Union is unquestionably regarded as the principal external threat to Chinese security. The Sino-Soviet border clashes of 1969 and an abortive Soviet plan to take out China's nuclear facilities in a swift preemptive strike undoubtedly contributed to China's interest in repairing relations with the US and creating Sino-US ties that would give the Soviets pause in contemplating any military action against...