Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only three months ago, the Pakistani border town of Teri Mangal bustled with a busy bazaar and a steady flow of Afghan mujahedin rebels on their way to or from the fighting in Afghanistan. Today Teri Mangal is deserted. On March 23, Soviet-built Afghan MiGs roared across the frontier, demolishing many of the shops that sold arms to the guerrillas and leveling the simple clapboard flophouses where they bedded down for the night. The raid claimed more than 80 lives...
...During all of 1986, only about 24 people were killed in similar raids. The increase in the number of strikes prompted Pakistan to send President Reagan an "extremely urgent" request for U.S. radar surveillance planes to direct Pakistani F-16s against intruders along the country's 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan...
...telecommunications consultant who came to Goldstein in Tijuana in 1983 for root-canal treatment. "But now I am convinced that not only is it cheaper, but also I am getting superior dentistry. They care more down here." He recalls once Goldstein even picked him up at the San Ysidro border crossing in her own car and dropped him off again after the appointment. Says he: "Now you can't beat that for service...
Standout example: the village of Oak Brook does not like the glitzy 31-story office tower designed by Architect Helmut Jahn any more than Joann Murphy does. But neighboring Oakbrook Terrace gladly let a developer put it up -- right on the border between the two communities. Then Oak Brook refused to widen a road running to one side of the building, even though the developer offered to pay for the work. Its argument: Oakbrook Terrace would get all the tax advantages of the new building, so let Oakbrook Terrace widen one of its own roads and choke on the ensuing...
Bargain hunters are heading south of the border for surprisingly good medical care. -- Does blood doping work for jocks...