Word: bordering
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...facts of the case. On May 20, Marine Corporal Clemente Banuelos, 22, aimed his M-16 rifle at an 18-year-old goatherd named Esequiel Hernandez Jr. and shot him to death. Banuelos was part of a military surveillance unit helping control drug traffic in the tiny West Texas border town of Redford. He had apparently mistaken Hernandez--who was carrying a rifle and had fired it in the direction of the Marines--for one of the armed scouts who typically act as advance guards for drug smugglers...
Meanwhile, in the ongoing skirmish on the northern border, Israel has retaliated after yesterday's rocket attack by bombing a Hizballah base on the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. Two children were hurt when the roof of their house collapsed in eastern Lebanon...
...never met Pol Pot, but I saw examples of his handiwork. In 1982, writing a story called "Children of War" for TIME, I visited the Khao I Dang refugee camp in southeast Thailand, across the border from Cambodia. There 40,000 Cambodians who had fled Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge awaited resettlement. They had made the camp into a village consisting of straw-roofed huts, gardens and wats...
...ruled yesterday. Although they lost the case, the incident has created new respect for the Texas Rangers, who rallied behind the teenager Esequiel Hernandes Jr.- presenting evidence in his favor. It was a peculiar twist, since the Rangers had previously been considered "legendarily racist in their dealings along the border," according to TIME's Sam Gwynne, who has been following the case...
...other marines, after the goatherder twice fired a .22-caliber rifle at the group and was about to do so again. But Hernandes supporters - and the Rangers - say the teen had been simply taking target practice while herding his goats, and had not seen the camouflaged marines. All military border missions were suspended after the May 20 killing, prompting a re-evaluation of using soldiers to combat drug trafficking in civilian areas. A House immigration subcommittee plans to hold a hearing on the shooting next month...