Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their journey north, Enrique and Rosa naively, but always intelligently, ride successive waves of shock and betrayal together. The strength of their dream propels them through daunting encounters with everything from tunnel rats to border patrols. In one hilarious scene, Enrique makes use of a friend's advice to pepper his speech with the word "fuck" in order to convince a pair of immigration officers that he is a Mexican...
...control of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, an estimated 100,000 soldiers as young as Abbas Shahverdi have fallen in battle. With characteristic zeal, propaganda ministries in Tehran and Baghdad continued last week to churn out the usual contradictory news bulletins of air strikes, casualty figures, shellings and border skirmishes lost...
Iraqi aircraft attacked Iranian forces, which clung tenaciously to Majnoon oilfield. At week's end military officials in Baghdad claimed that Iraqi forces had also destroyed four oil tankers and commercial ships near Kharg Island, the major terminal for Iran's oil exports. Along the border near Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, troops loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini massed for yet another offensive. Iraq appeared to have lost a bit of its much vaunted technological edge with the news that one of the five Super Etendard fighter-bombers it had bought from France had been...
...West Africa, or Namibia, it has insisted on one key condition: the withdrawal of some 25,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Angola. Last month representatives of the South African and Angolan governments negotiated a historic cease-fire in the smoldering, nearly 18-year-old war along the Angola-Namibia border. This raised new hopes for a breakthrough in the long-stalled negotiations over Namibia. Then last week in Havana, Angola's Marxist President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, unexpectedly issued a joint communiqué setting forth terms for a withdrawal of Cuban...
...remain before the Cubans go home. Pretoria is sure to demand ironclad guarantees of a Cuban withdrawal before its own troops leave Namibia. Still, the cease-fire between South Africa and Angola has held, and even South African officials have been impressed by the Angolan determination to end the border war. In recent weeks, troops from both countries have combined forces in a Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), which has been forced to engage disruptive SWAPO forces on three separate occasions. The JMC toll: two killed and eight wounded, all Angolan. The fact that the Dos Santos government has been willing...