Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence of Israeli arms in the region is not new. During the Nicaraguan civil war that ended with the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza by Sandinista rebels in 1979, both sides fought with Israeli guns. In the 1976 border skirmish between Honduras and El Salvador, the two countries used Israeli infantry weapons. Since 1976, Israel has become a leading supplier to Guatemala, Honduras and to a lesser extent Costa Rica...
...when visitors to this typical North Dakota town, which lies just on the border of Minnesota, venture through, the top attractions tend to be the city's three major shopping centers or the university's Grand Forks, explains the mayor, usually attracts many Canadian visitors, as well. "With our location to Winnipeg (1.50 miles directly south), we have some very close Canadian ties. Hessman says...
...base for spreading fresh violence to Guatemala, Honduras, even Costa Rica. The killing will increase, and so will the threat to Panama, the Canal and ultimately Mexico." That, he added, would advance the aims of "Soviet military theorists [who] want to tie down our forces on our own southern border and so limit our capacity to act in more distant places such as Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the Sea of Japan...
Three days later, however, Nkomo fled. After an all-night drive in a Land Rover along bush roads, he reached the border of Botswana, where he sought temporary refuge. At week's end, Nkomo flew by private chartered aircraft to Johannesburg, where he boarded a British Airways flight to London. There was no way of telling whether his exile would prove to be temporary or permanent. In Zimbabwe, the government detained his wife and three other members of his family. Later, authorities announced that Nkomo's wife had been released on unspecified "humanitarian grounds," although the other family...
Further, since the June invasion the Israelis have been shipping large amounts of fruits and vegetables across the border in South Lebanon. Because Israeli agriculture is subsidized by the government Israeli merchants can afford to undercut the prices of the local farming population in South Lebanon, seriously tightening their main source of income...