Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contras' statement said Linder was killed Tuesday near La Camaleona, located about 45 miles from the Honduran border...
...plot is ludicrous. An undercover Army group, made up of men who have been officially listed as killed in action, come to a Texas border town to rob a bank and get funds for a secret mission. There they run across Jack Benteen (Nolte), a hard-boiled Texas Ranger who unwittingly assumes that the crime wave sweeping his town is caused by real criminals instead of the United States Armed Forces. He lays all the blame on a childhood friend of his, Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), who now lives in Mexico and runs smack for a living...
Canadian officials seem overwhelmed by the illegal flood along the 3,987- | mile border. One reason is that thousands of vehicles pass border crossings daily, too many to check carefully. Another: the untold number of back roads and bays linking the two countries. Sighs Michael Crichton, a regional intelligence official for Canada Customs: "The odds are all on the smugglers' side...
...lifeline begins at a camp at a hidden airstrip along the Nicaraguan- Honduran border. From there, goods are piled into motor-driven dugouts and shipped down the Bocay to remote supply points. Much of the traffic goes through a hilltop base deep inside the jungle. Armed guards are posted outside the facility, which is little more than a day's march from the fighting in central Jinotega. At the base, located some 25 miles inside Nicaragua, boxes of ammunition and mortar rounds are secured beneath camouflaged tarpaulins, and a radio operator maintains static-filled contact with forces...
Even so, the perilously thin lifeline has lifted the contras' spirits and military fortunes. "These bases are an important advance for us," says Comandante 42. "The big difference in the past few months is that our men can get resupplied here rather than at the border." Sandinista troops showed just how dangerous border supply operations can be when they overran the main contra base near Yamales, Honduras, in March 1986, with a 3,000-man force. The rebels beat back the soldiers after a nine-day battle...