Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealing with Mexico. Shortly before his Inauguration, the former California Governor signaled that Mexico would be at the top of his foreign policy agenda by making a courtesy call on José López Portillo, who was then President. Reagan made a second trip south of the border to offer neighborly greetings to López Portillo's successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. But when the President traveled to Mexico for a return visit with De la Madrid last week, all of that good will was put to the test. The reason: profound disagreement between...
...local bus-from the northern farming hamlet of San José de Bocay to the village of Jinotega, seven hours away, is a nerve-searing experience. The winding road runs through an area infiltrated by U.S.-supported contras who are waging a cat-and-mouse war along the Honduran border against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. Although there have been contra ambushes before, last week's was particularly grisly...
...Supreme Court Justice in First Monday in October. Now in Hanna K., a new political film by Director Costa-Gavrass (Z, Missing), she plays an American attorney turned Israeli citizen who takes on the controversial case of an Arab charged with persistently and illegally crossing the border into Israel. "It is an allegorical tale," says Clayburgh. Though she had little time to play tourist while filming in Israel, being virtually unknown there gave her a welcome escape from the pressures of fame. Says she: "It's especially nice in museums...
...really at war with Israel, and the only country to be really at war with Israel, and the only country to receive the Israeli strikes. Every time the Lebanese Army tried to stop the PLO abuses in Lebanon. Syria threatened the Lebanese government, and sometimes invaded the Lebanese border villages...
Gaddafi's primary interest in Chad is the Aozou Strip, a 60-mile-wide band near Chad's northern border. Since 1973 Libya has occupied the area, which is believed to be rich in uranium and manganese. In June 1980, Goukouni, who was then President, signed a friendship treaty with Gaddafi, granting Libya the right to intervene militarily in Chad and laying plans for a merger of the two countries. Habré, who was then Defense Minister, took up arms against Goukouni in protest, but he was defeated in December 1980. Goukouni ruled for a year...