Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Sea camp of Artek last summer, Pioneers wrote postcards to President Reagan urging him to accept Soviet peace proposals; during a broadcast of the TV show I Serve the Soviet Union, Pioneers ran obstacle courses and assembled machine guns, all under the watchful eyes of KGB border guards...
Preoccupied by Lebanon's disintegration, Western nations have paid little heed to another continuing tragedy, the seemingly endless border war between Iran and Iraq. Yet throughout the 41-month-long struggle that has claimed more than 130,000 lives, vital Western interests have been in jeopardy. That point was driven home again last week as the war entered a new cycle of bloodletting. While thousands of Iraqi and Iranian troops clashed in major battles, the widening conflict reawakened the U.S. and other oil-consuming nations to the threat of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway through...
Iran retaliated by shelling six Iraqi border settlements and launching an air attack on the town of Baquba, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. That, however, turned out to be only the prelude to an offensive by elements of an Iranian force of 300,000 troops massed near the border. After eleven hours of heavy fighting, the Iranians claimed to have broken through Iraqi lines 100 miles west of Baghdad. Iraq conceded that an attack had occurred but said that the Iranians had been "crushed" by a counteroffensive and were in retreat...
...single day every spring and autumn, about half a million 18-year-old males cram into flag-bedecked train stations across the Soviet Union as they set off to begin mandatory military service. Except for those who have been selected for three-year stints in the navy and border guard, the new draftees will begin two years of rigorous training, living in spartan barracks and eating such fare as greasy soup, cabbage, potatoes and salted fish. In the event of war, the military can draft 5 million more men from active reserve and an additional 40 million who are obliged...
...Palestinian shelling of settlements in northern Israel. A U.S.-negotiated cease-fire in 1981 brought those attacks to a halt, but in June 1982 Israel used them-as well as the attempted assassination of its ambassador in London-as a pretext to invade Lebanon. Instead of merely clearing the border area, as Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had promised, the army charged ahead to Beirut. The real aims of Israel's Peace for Galilee campaign: to destroy the P.L.O., humiliate the Syrians and reinforce Lebanon's Christian-dominated government...