Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mario was then taken with others in an INS bus to the border at Tijuana. He met another young deportee, who had $10, and the two used it for food. After a day of wandering, they crawled into the U.S. through a hole in the border fence. INS agents caught them, detained them overnight and deported them again. They sneaked back into the U.S. An elderly friend of the other youth let them sleep in his backyard in San Diego. Mario's father, meanwhile, borrowed $60 from friends, took a bus to the border and spent four days showing...
...wide Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf shipping lane through which 20% of the West's crude oil travels. That threat grew more worrisome as Iran launched yet another offensive, its biggest since July 1982, against Iraq. By week's end Iranian forces had occupied 37 Iraqi border villages, and were engaged in fierce hand-to-hand battles with Iraqi defenders on the outskirts of Al Azair. Thousands of men on both sides were reported killed. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The worse the fighting, the greater the chance for miscalculation...
...uncharacteristic mood promises to rein in a dangerous escalation in tensions between the two countries, with each accusing the other of sponsoring cross-border subversion. Although details of the pact remain to be settled, it would prevent the use of Mozambique as a base for the militant African National Congress (A.N.C.), which has mounted sabotage attacks on South African targets, including government installations and police stations. In turn, South Africa would tacitly agree to withhold support from the 10,000-member Mozambique National Resistance (M.N.R.) movement, an insurgent group that has plagued Mozambique for the past five years...
...Wambaugh recalls, the San Diego police department formed what came to be known as the Border Alien Robbery Force in 1976 to aid the thousands of illegal Mexican aliens who came north from Tijuana. The original ten officers, eight of them Mexican Americans, did not arrest the aliens: the "wetbacks" were useful as cheap labor. Instead, they cracked down on the knife-wielding thieves and rapists who preyed on the meek pollos in the barren DMZ between countries...
...take them down hard. Fists, saps, gun butts," one said. "Until such time as the guy's dead or pretends he's dead." Public approval was swift and loud, and when the bandits abandoned the turf, the Barfers ignored sense, morality and orders, crossing the border after them...