Dangerous work.An end to a sordid sor·did adj. 1. Filthy or dirty; foul. 2. Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns. 3. chapter of Chile's border history may soon be in sight. Fifteen minefields with up to a half-million land mines along the Chilean-Bolivian border are being dismantled through an international agreement in a process expected to last until 2011. Placed between 1974 and 1978, when Chile was under the rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was President of Chile from 1974 to 1990, and head of the military junta from 1973 to 1974. , the mines protected the Chilean frontier from neighbors Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. After more than 20 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time land mines still remain, although the conflicts that warranted their existence have long since moved to the diplomatic level. The total cost of the mine clearance The process of removing all mines from a route or area. along Chilean borders--there are as many as 1 million in total on all its borders--is expected to hit US$350 million. |
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