Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp near the Turkish village of Ortakoy last week, 7,000 exhausted refugees were fighting malaria, diarrhea and intestinal diseases from their journey. There was scant physical evidence of either chemical or gas bombings, but refugees said those victims had not lived to carry their tales across the border. In a primitive medical clinic, Caglayan Cucen, a Turkish doctor, said he would never forget treating a little Kurdish girl for an injured foot. "She was crying and crying," he said. "Then I realized that there was another sound just outside: hundreds of the Kurds, hundreds of them, had begun...
...last week, as some 60,000 Iraqi troops backed by aircraft, tanks and artillery continued the operation, at least 60,000 Kurds had fled across the border into Turkey. In the safety of one of four refugee camps there, Sefika and her family were relatively fortunate. According to some reports, the Iraqis killed at least 2,200 civilians and 250 pesh mergas. Though not all the dead were victims of chemical warfare, the attacks revived ghastly memories of Iraq's poison-gas blitz last March in the village of Halabja, where an estimated 4,000 Kurds died...
...northern coast and the southern half of the 370-mile Texas coast from Brownsville to Port O'Connor, including 250,000-resident Corpus Christi. A hurricane watch remained in effect for the remainder of the Texas coast, from Port O'Connor north to Port Arthur near the Louisiana border...
...prevent pregnancies, maybe premarital sex will become even more common," frets Liu. Still, Dr. Wu labels Beijing's stand hypocritical, pointing out that government hospitals in the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, have become profitable abortion mills by guaranteeing confidentiality to affluent women who cross the border into China for the operations...
...terrible horror. Last week the Burundian government confirmed that ten days of tribal massacres in the verdant, mountainous communities of Marangara and Ntega had left as many as 5,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless. Western observers estimate that some 38,000 refugees have fled across the border into neighboring Rwanda, with more arriving every...