Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escalating Soviet presence puzzles Western experts in only one respect: whether it is born from a genuine Ethiopian desire to be close to Moscow or from sheer necessity. The likely answer: sheer necessity. The Dergue depends on Soviet arms in its smoldering border conflict with Somalia. Moscow has also sent helicopter gunships, artillery and military advisers to supplement Ethiopian troops fighting guerrillas who seek independence for the northern province of Eritrea. Mengistu also needs help against armed rebellions in several other provinces...
...Honduran border road, two U.S. journalists are killed...
...Trojes is a pleasant, ordinary scribble between mountains at roadside and a green valley. Peasants pick their way as rickety trucks rumble by. The main thing to interest a foreign visitor on the stretch, a four-hour drive southeast of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, is that the border with Nicaragua is as little as 20 or 30 yards away. There is a sporadic, undeclared war between the two countries; the proximity can mean "action"-gunfire. Last week that promise of a story drew Reporter Dial Torgerson, 55, of the Los Angeles Times, and Freelance Photographer Richard Cross, 33, on assignment...
...always meant El Salvador. Said Peter Eisner, the Central America news editor for Associated Press: "The focus of fighting has been there." In San Salvador, reporters sometimes face searches of their apartments, sloppy telephone taps and occasional death threats made in anonymous calls or leaflets. On the Honduras-Nicaragua border, which some leading correspondents last week labeled the new most hazardous spot in an increasingly strife-torn region, there is an emerging hint of precaution. Said Tamayo regretfully: "In El Salvador, journalists use towels as white flags and label cars with the words for 'press.' Here...
...nature of this relationship was illustrated in the deaths last week of two American journalists, Dial Torgerson and Richard Cross, who were killed when their white, rented Toyota was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade on a road in Honduras near the Nicaraguan border (see PRESS). Nicaraguan soldiers apparently added machine-gun fire to the damage of the grenade. This kind of story always startles people, though it is hard...