Word: border
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...trying to plug the holes on the Mexican border with radar balloons, aircraft equipped with infrared sensors and ground-implanted motion sensors. But vast stretches of badlands are not constantly under guard. The traffickers, in turn, have proved endlessly inventive. On May 17, Customs agents discovered a 250-ft.-long, 5-ft.-wide concrete-and-steel reinforced tunnel that ran 35 ft. under the border, between a construction-supply warehouse in Douglas, Ariz., and a house in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Agents figure virtually all of Arizona's cocaine supply moved for a time via the passage...
Behind Thatcher's full skirts hid skeptics on issues ranging from the abolition of all border controls, to a single currency by 1994, to free immigration within the European Community. "It was easy for certain countries to sit back and let her do the talking," said a senior E.C. diplomat. "She would take the political risks in saying what some others also thought." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for example, may have to come out in the open in slowing down the movement toward a common E.C. currency, a goal heatedly opposed by Thatcher and Kohl's own Bundesbank...
...that falling living standards, large-scale unemployment and political rivalries will produce the kind of aggressive nationalism that has caused the region so much grief in the past. People are all too ready to blame others for their problems. When Havel suggested that Czechoslovakia could not expect open borders with the rest of Europe if it kept its own frontier with Poland closed, he found no echo among his countrymen. A survey by the Public Opinion Research Institute disclosed that while more than 81% of those polled supported Havel generally, only 4% agreed with him on the border issue...
...citizens to travel abroad freely -- Poles fear a stampede westward into Poland. And if things get bad enough in the Soviet Union, which some Polish officials consider likely, many Soviets will come regardless of any change in regulations. "There is no way we can police the whole eastern border," says an official. "It is just too porous...
Shannon approached the story from the government side, interviewing officials in Washington and heading for the Mexican border. There she flew with U.S. Customs officers as they patrolled smuggling routes and staged mock intercepts. They scouted the "slots," mountain passes where airborne smugglers fly only feet above the ground to evade radar. "Drug pilots are all a little crazy," she says. "They carry extra fuel bladders, which means they're flying a bomb. At 50 ft., graze a hill and it's all over...