Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asia experts have long touted the advantages for the U.S. of opening a diplomatic post in Mongolia, the landlocked republic where 50,000 Soviet troops are stationed to guard the border with China. But the yet to be named U.S. ambassador will see that mountainous country only periodically. He will be posted in Washington, not in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator. It will mark the first time that a U.S. envoy has fulfilled his mission from a desk on C Street...
...Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian guerrilla died in a foggy, predawn skirmish on the Lebanon border...
...Israel's northern border, Israeli paratroopers battled with a three-man guerrilla squad that cut through a fence and planned to attack a civilian settlement, army officials said. A guerrilla and two Israeli soldiers were killed, one guerrilla was captured and another one escaped back to Lebanon...
...army announced yesterday that border policeshot and wounded one Palestinian in the leg afterfire bombs were thrown at a patrol. The incidenttook place when a curfew was briefly lifted in theBalata refugee camp near Nablus. Arab reports saidthree were wounded...
...Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O., initially caught off guard by the spontaneous uprisings, said its main arm, Fatah, was responsible for an attempted raid into northern Israel by three Palestinians. The trio entered the country by cutting a large hole in the security fence along the Lebanese border and apparently intended to attack a nearby kibbutz. The raiders were hunted down by an Israeli border patrol and killed in a firefight...