Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also released an earlier interview with an unidentified woman who said, from Walesa's Gdansk home. "He will be unable to travel there for well-known reasons.... He is simply not sure that he would be able to cross the Polish border in both directions...
...guerrillas that includes many members of the late Dictator Somoza's hated National Guard, said that "the hour of the struggle has arrived." For more than a year, these counterrevolutionaries (known as contras) had staged hit-and-run attacks on the Sandinista regime from sanctuaries across the Honduran border. Their targets were principally in the adjacent Nicaraguan departments of Jinotega and Nueva Segovia. Those assaults have often been matched by fighting in the Nicaraguan department of Zelaya, on the country's Atlantic coast, where the Sandinistas have alienated many of the resident Miskito Indians with a heavyhanded...
Cruise missiles meet unexpected turbulence north of the border...
...multinational force in Beirut, but not by Israelis. Most of the examples of Israeli harassment occurred when Ariel Sharon was still Defense Minister. His apparent motive: to ensure that Israeli rather than American or other foreign troops would guard the Lebanese side of the border once a troop-withdrawal agreement had been signed. Such confrontations have diminished since Sharon's replacement as Defense Minister by Moshe Arens. Many of the events Barrow referred to involved not the Marines of the multinational force but American officers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, which has been in the region since...
...trained and equipped by the U.S. Major Saad Haddad's 1,200-man militia, which enjoys close links with the Israelis, could be integrated into this special force. As the meetings progressed, Shamir seemed to back off from a demand for Israeli-manned early-warning stations in the border area. Instead, he discussed other alternatives, including the possibility that Israeli liaison officers would be permitted to make inspection trips into Lebanon. But such flexibility may be illusory: when Shamir returned to Jerusalem, he told reporters that the U.S. ideas are "not yet satisfactory...