Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would not be able in the future to work with the Lebanese government on the establishment of security arrangements in the southern part of Lebanon. The only way to pull our army out is to agree with the Lebanese government and the Lebanese Army on security arrangements along our border...
...ORDER TO insure stability the U.S. has habitually answered Central American uprisings with force. Such was the notion behind Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick approach to the regions' troubles. It was Roosevelt who began the practice to dispatching the marines for any misbehavior south of the border. When, during the Depression, this became too costly a procedure, the U.S. began training local armies, such as Nicaragua's infamous National Guard, to do its police work...
...Israeli invasion of Lebanon two summers ago soon turned into outright opposition among some factions. Even the excuses which then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his ultra-religious coalition offered for the invasion at the time--the need to clear out the PLO-infested areas on the Israeli-Lebanon border to ensure safety for Northern Israeli communities--seemed weak to a country accustomed to almost daily serious threats to its existence...
...Turks worked valiantly to cut their losses. Army troops stationed near the Soviet border within 100 miles of the afflicted area rushed 7,000 pup tents, 26,000 blankets and ten tons of tea to the stricken villagers. After the daily newspaper Hurriyet printed a front-page photo of two young girls forlornly searching for their parents, it was flooded with calls from readers offering to adopt orphaned survivors. The government also received promises of several donations from abroad, including $10 million from Saudi Arabia and more than $2 million worth of supplies from...
Located on the Pakistani border, Punjab is one of India's most strategic states. It is also the wealthiest agricultural region, supplying the nation with 80% of its wheat. Yet when it comes to industrial development, claim the Sikhs, the government consistently slights them. Sikh moderates would be appeased by an increase in state power; a small radical minority, however, is determined to fight for an entirely separate state called Khalistan. So far, more than 100,000 Sikhs, known as the Akali Dal (Action Party) "Sacrifice Squad,"' have sworn to lay down their lives in the present struggle...