Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special security worries with each nation. Russia's internal chaos could spill into China's already uneasy Western provinces. An India-Pakistan war--something that didn't look too farfetched as the two nations shelled each other last week--would take place right along China's southwestern border, a nervous-making event for any government...
...leader, Barak's biggest liability may be his lack of empathy--that Clintonesque ability to connect with others. He can be famously detached, recalls Doron Cohen, his brother-in-law, who served under Barak in the Sayeret Matkal. The first time he sent Cohen off on a cross-border raid, Barak accompanied the infiltrators to the frontier, but, says Cohen, "Ehud wouldn't tell me one personal word. I understood this was business. There was no room for gestures." Yet when the forces returned safely, Barak rushed over to Cohen to hug him. "He's so targeted, so cool," says...
...Pakistan can afford to do is to show weakness in relation to the other. So New Delhi is now bound to up the ante after Pakistan Thursday downed an Indian MiG-27 and claimed to have also hit an Indian MiG-21 that had crashed in the Kashmir border region. The two nuclear-armed states are once again jostling at the brink of full-blown war in Kashmir after India Wednesday began bombing some 600 Pakistan-backed guerrillas who had crossed into its territory...
...little nervous when the world's newest nuclear states start launching air strikes. And that may be exactly why the stakes are being raised. Indian bombers and helicopter gunships attacked hundreds of suspected Pakistan-backed infiltrators Wednesday, with some of the bombs landed on the Pakistani side of the border. "This was the largest incursion into India since 1948, and the object is less military than political," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "By the choice of terrain, this looks less like an attempt to capture territory than a means of keeping international focus on Kashmir. Pakistan is concerned...
...Osama Bin Laden, which were targeted by U.S. missiles last year.) Pakistan denies the charge. Tensions in Kashmir have mounted over the past year, but the air strikes mark a dramatic escalation. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in 52 years, two of them over Kashmir. A festering border dispute could take on new meaning now that both sides have nuclear weapons and the medium-range missiles with which to deliver them...