Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show of force in South Florida has resulted in much faster growth of the smuggling business at other border crossings and landing strips from San Diego to Portland, Me. Smugglers' jets equipped with long-range fuel tanks now bypass Florida's notorious narcs and land instead in South Carolina, Tennessee or even New York's Long Island, which puts the product only a few miles from Manhattan's penthouses and discos. The influx has prompted New York Governor Mario Cuomo to assign 200 more officers to drug-enforcement squads...
...busiest new cocaine alley is the 2,100-mile Mexican border. "It's a sieve, and we don't have enough fingers to plug all the holes," says Drexel Watson, a senior special agent for the Customs Service. "More drugs than ever are coming in. It's pretty devastating." Mexico has become a conduit for as much as a third of the South American cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana...
...independence in exchange for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. Diplomatic progress has been made since then--the most recent negotiations saw the Luanda regime concede the withdrawal of all but 10,000 of the Cubans, who would be stationed more than 1000 miles north of the Namibian border. But by aggravating the Luanda government and thwarting the peace process, South Africa has fabricated a pretext for its colonialist extension of apartheid into Namibia...
While they may never be fast friends, Nicaragua and Costa Rica moved last week to ease the border tensions that threatened to destroy their already edgy relations. The two countries agreed to form a joint patrol of their 225-mile frontier to prevent clashes between Sandinista forces and U.S.-backed contras based in Costa Rica. The arrangement is designed to avoid incidents like the shooting deaths of two Costa Rican guardsmen last May, which resulted in abruptly severed diplomatic relations. Reason: San Jose blamed the violence on Sandinista troops, while Managua blamed the contras...
...border agreement follows the election last month of Costa Rican President-elect Oscar Arias Sanchez. Shortly after his victory, the feuding neighbors resumed relations and exchanged new ambassadors. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was quick to portray the accord as evidence of his country's desire for peace in the region. The Reagan Administration, which last week asked Congress for an additional $100 million in aid for the contras, was unimpressed. Said a State Department spokesman: "It's nice they're having these bilateral accords, but they can't take the place of a regional, verifiable settlement...