Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Death on the Border Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's outrage at the killing of an American soldier in Honduras [Jan. 23] is disingenuous. If we send soldiers into a combat area, some are going to be killed. Thomas C. Reber Austin The loss of our helicopter pilot near the Honduran-Nicaraguan border should serve as a lesson for us: if you don't want the fruits of sin, stay out of the orchard...
When Syria refused, Israel, in an effort to reduce casualties, drew its army back to the Awali River, some 17 miles south of Beirut. Now, with domestic pressure mounting, the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.) would gladly pull back to Israel's own border. But to do so, they fear, would be to allow the Syrians to gain control over the region and perhaps enable what is left of the Palestine Liberation Organization to return. And that, in turn, would constitute an admission that the war in Lebanon, in which more than 560 Israeli soldiers were killed...
...unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when he was Edo's age. The boy might be moved by Diego's plight, but just at the moment he is involved with a girl revolutionary he smuggled across the Austro-Italian border. Alvaro (Hector Alterio), his sexuality dampened by illness, his ego padded by wry self-awareness, endures, but only as accompanist to the boy when he sets forth on a soloist's career, still blithely unaware of the damage he has done...
...break away from the tour for a couple of days, but others on the tour who did not complained that the Ministry officials seemed like they "were hidding something. "One day while driving alon the Jordanian border in the South, our tour guide mentioned that the border was very safe, and that there had been no problems with terrorists for years in that region. "Shhh," said the Ministry official on the bus, under his breath, and the two argued heatedly-in Hebrew. The official obviously didn't want those aboard to hear too much about terorism. But it was difficult...
...course, but Snow Ball amply documents Sharon's zealous lobbying in Cabinet meetings and among his generals. Sharon plumped for the attack, according to Shiffer, despite the fact that Israeli military intelligence concluded that the skirmishing between Palestine Liberation Organization forces and Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border in July 1981 was provoked by the Israelis, not by the P.L.O. The Begin government, which used the threat of P.L.O. attacks as a pretext for the invasion, refused to make the report public...