Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 10 years and billions of dollars in aid, El Salvador's military has little to show for itself but a reprehensible human rights record that includes forced recruitment of boys as young as 12 or 13; the destruction and evacuation of border peasant villages; arrests, tortures, and disappearances of human rights advocates and civilians vaguely suspected of left-wing activity; and deep, friendly relations with the death squads...
When the great breach finally came, it started undramatically. At a press conference last Thursday, Schabowski announced almost offhandedly that starting at midnight, East Germans would be free to leave at any point along the country's borders, including the crossing points through the Wall in Berlin, without special permission, for a few hours, a day or forever. Word spread rapidly through both parts of the divided city, to the 2 million people in the West and the 1.3 million in the East. At Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin's American sector, a crowd gathered well before midnight. Many...
...most publicized instances, 18-year-old Peter Fechter, an East Berlin bricklayer, was cut down by machine-gun fire as he tried to scale the Wall and, in plain view of Western policemen and reporters, was left lying for an hour while he bled to death; finally East German border guards retrieved his body. Fechter was one of an estimated 75 who have been killed over the past 28 years while trying to escape across the barrier...
...reason prices have become dangerously affordable is that smugglers have proved so flexible. When federal agents cracked down on shipments through South Florida, traffickers started routing shipments through the porous Mexican border. At the same time, the smuggling industry has plenty of competition. When Colombia's campaign against the Medellin cartel hampered that group's operations, the rival Cali-based group filled the vacuum...
...officials denounced the supposed intercepts as fakes, and peacekeepers in Namibia reported that the country was "exceptionally calm." South Africa's actions appeared to be a last pre-election blast against SWAPO, which is favored to win and install a leftist government on South Africa's border. Pretoria retreated by week's end, saying it might have fallen for a hoax...