Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boots and battered sneakers kicked up dust and occasionally sent crushed aluminum beer / cans skittering across the gravel surface. The excited yelps of dancers wafted off into the desert toward arid mountain ranges swathed in the pale light of a distant moon, keeping silent watch over the U.S.-Mexican border...
...tank, paid a private visit to the ravaged country. Robert E. White, a former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, headed the tour. Over the span of a week, the group visited Kabul and Mazar-i- Sharif, a surprisingly peaceful city of more than 100,000 people on Afghanistan's border with the Soviet Union. One stop on the I.C.D.P. tour was a large, blue-tiled mosque, where about 1,500 men listened as a stooped, aged mullah read from the Koran. When several worshipers turned and glared at the intruders, however, the Afghan officials hustled the group out the door...
...carries a big stick. Standing in front of an outdoor basketball court, Gore asserts, "We need a President who's not just going to talk tough, but who's willing to show some strength. And if that means . . . using the military to help stop drugs at our border, then...
...death penalty for "drug kingpins," saying, "These people are dealing in death, and that's what they should get." Bush likes to say he has been on the front lines of the drug war. Indeed, he was head of the South Florida Task Force and National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, both designed to promote cooperation among law-enforcement agencies in stanching the inflow of drugs. Yet that is precisely what makes him vulnerable: polls show that a majority of Americans believe that the Reagan Administration has failed to make a serious effort to stem the drug traffic...
...billion expansion of the Government's antidrug | efforts. In doing so, it busted the supposedly sacrosanct spending targets negotiated with the White House last year. The Senate also voted to impose sanctions against Mexico for failing to be sufficiently vigilant in arresting the flow of drugs across its border into the U.S. If the House concurs, it would mark the first time Congress has invoked a 1986 law that denies foreign assistance to countries that have been lax in fighting the international transport of narcotics. But the action is more symbolic than real, as Reagan is likely to invoke...