Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anniversary of Israel's invasion of , Lebanon and, at least theoretically, with the end of that ill-fated adventure. The last Israeli units were expected to be withdrawn by the end of last week, although Jerusalem left around 100 soldiers in a "security zone" north of the Israel-Lebanon frontier. That prompted an outcry from Lebanese Shi'ites, who threaten continued warfare until the last Israeli soldier leaves Lebanon...
...Administration was particularly annoyed by Honduran moves to dislodge droves of contras from camps along the frontier with Nicaragua that the rebels have been occupying since mid-1981. The Hondurans are anxious to close the camps so that the Sandinistas, who this month made two incursions into the area, will have no excuse for further attack. It remained unclear last week where most of the estimated 15,000 rebels are now operating. The contras claimed that 12,000 of their troops have returned to Nicaragua. Sandinista officials insist that the rebels have retreated to areas farther inside Honduras, possibly...
...Nicaraguan government evidently feels that its military presence close to the Honduran frontier will be enough to contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero slum, a stronghold of militance during the 1979 insurrection against former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Sandinista activist named Maria says she remains faithful to the revolution's principles, but "life is getting harder." The main problem: "Basic necessities cost more and more, and some items are almost impossible to find...
...were hungry, thirsty and penniless," John Cofie Godigah, 38, recalled last week from a hospital bed in Ghana. "I expected the Nigerians to show some feeling. I was mistaken." Godigah had driven his car from Lagos, Nigeria, to a border station on the Benin frontier, joining a caravan of an estimated 250 vehicles filled with foreigners who were being forced to leave the country. When the crowd tried to force its way across the choked border into Benin, Nigerian guards began firing warning shots and tear gas. Godigah was hit. He awoke in a hospital, was released after treatment...
...tier salary agreements are becoming widespread in U.S. labor contracts. Among airlines, the plan is now used at American, Frontier and Piedmont. Those airlines complained that because they paid much higher salaries, they could not compete against new, low-overhead airlines like People Express. In 1983, labor costs represented 37.5% of American's operating expenses, as compared with 20% for People Express...