Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military interception capabilities are more effective at sea than in the air. One reason: a smuggling vessel can be tracked for a day or more, providing ample time for the Navy to reach, stop and inspect it. But some border-hopping Cessnas can fly to their unloading airstrips and slip out of the U.S. again in half an hour. Even if Air Force radar planes such as the AWACS or E-2C surveillance craft spot the intruders, there is not much time to alert lawmen on the ground, get them to the strip and make arrests before the drug traffickers...
...effective aircraft for this job (Black Hawk helicopters and Cessna and Falcon jets) but they need more of them for better coverage. One other practical tactic: the use of tethered balloons with look-down radar (called aerostats). Seven, already authorized by Congress but not yet operational, could cover the border and part of the Bahamas...
...beleaguered Customs Service welcomes the prospect of more military help. "It's great; we need 'em," says Deputy Customs Commissioner Michael Lane. "They can help significantly." But he has a terse word for any 45-day deadline in closing the border to drugs: "Lunacy...
...Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But the most noteworthy preparation for the superpower sit-down was in progress about 2,000 miles from the Kremlin on the dusty, sunbaked plateaus of northern Afghanistan. There a convoy of nearly 300 tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across the border into the motherland as the Soviet army began a retreat from its disastrous 8 1/2-year effort to prop up Afghanistan's tottering Communist government. The first phase of the withdrawal, involving 25% of the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, is to end May 29, which just happens to mark...
Even as the first contingents of Soviet soldiers moved toward the border last week, the rebels began marshaling their forces. "The mujahedin are just gobbling up territory in the eastern provinces near Pakistan," said a Western diplomat in Islamabad. By week's end the rebels had overrun dozens of military posts abandoned by the hapless Afghan army and had besieged several important provincial towns. If the insurgents can take Jalalabad, a major town along the main supply route between Kabul and Pakistan, the capital itself may eventually fall...