Word: borderers
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...transformed from a sleepy Navy town to a booming metropolis. It became second only to Los Angeles in the West and sixth in the country, ahead of both Detroit and Dallas. Its industry diversified into high-tech research as well as low-cost maquiladoras manufacturing across the border in Mexico. Unemployment, at 3.9%, came to stand well under the national rate...
...despair of a twice-exiled people is etched into Inna Hairadze's tear- streaked face. Together with 100 other Meskhetian Turks, she stands in a thin wool coat on a Moscow street, protesting her people's lot. In 1944, "to strengthen border safety," Joseph Stalin deported the Turks from their mountainous homeland in Georgia to the flatlands of Uzbekistan. Then, last June, the Uzbeks rose up against the Turks, burning houses, belongings, even babies. One hundred people died, and 17,000 Turks were moved out. Authorities in Moscow scattered the refugees across Russia, where they are still denied permanent residence...
...country was founded on taboos, and one of them was that you could not leave the union. Armenia is on the border of Turkey, our historic enemy. That fact did not allow us to think about secession. But in the past two years, we have had a crisis of faith in Moscow as the Azerbaijanis continue to harass us. Our appeals to the center were answered with formal notes, requests for calm and rationality. They should have said, 'Let's figure out a compromise between Armenians, Azerbaijanis and the federation.' If the union does not defend the people of Nagorno...
...prison of nations." Most of those captive nations, set loose briefly by the Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of World War I, were reconquered by the Red Army and reforged into the modern Soviet Empire: 15 ethnically diverse republics spreading almost 7,000 miles from the Polish border to the Sea of Japan...
Afghanistan. Of all Moscow's Third World client states, only Afghanistan shares a Soviet border. Hence, it is the sole client to pose an immediate security problem. That fact helps explain Moscow's continued patronage for the Najibullah regime in Kabul, despite the Soviet withdrawal of its occupying forces from Afghanistan a year ago. Moscow's fear is that the country could become a springboard for Islamic revolutionaries eager to penetrate Soviet Central Asia. By U.S. Government estimates, Moscow's concern translates into a monthly dole of $200 million to $300 million, most of it in military assistance...