Word: borders
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Some 15,000 journalists will jostle with 4,000 delegates and alternates in and around the just finished $27 million Joe Louis Arena, where Ronald Reagan will become the Republicans' presidential candidate. The crowds are overwhelming Detroit's limited hotel and eating facilities; some conventioneers are staying across the border in Canada, or up to 40 miles away in small towns of Michigan...
...leaders unveiled no new policies, but found much to agree about. They encouraged each other to supply more arms to Thailand, which in June repelled a border incursion by the Soviet-backed Vietnamese. Hua told Carter that he had seen TV pictures of American planes unloading howitzers in Thailand. It was, he said, a "wise and important" move...
...President tacitly indicated that the U.S. would be silent about Chinese military moves along its 480-mile border with Viet Nam, short of outright war. The Chinese keep 250,000 to 300,000 Vietnamese troops occupied along that border. Hua backed U.S. efforts to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan and promised Carter that the Chinese would not question U.S. moves in the Middle East. He expressed "very, very strong" support for American efforts to acquire military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia as a counterweight to Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf region...
They were part of a group of 45 people from El Salvador, aged 13 to 35, who boarded an air-conditioned bus on June 28, hoping to join the mounting exodus from their overcrowded, violence-torn country. About July 2, they reached the border at the southwest corner of Arizona. They were being shepherded by four or five Salvadoran and Mexican "coyotes"-men who sneak aliens across the border for as much as $2,000 each...
Some of the Salvadorans thought they were going to be flown directly to Los Angeles, more than 200 miles away. When no planes came, 14 of the group decided to stay in Mexico. But 31 agreed to cross the lightly guarded border farther east, where seven border guards must patrol a 70-mile stretch...