Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sons of bitches, and Sukarno of Indonesia, who was Moscow's and who was ousted in an anti-Communist military coup in 1966. Even today the Soviet Union is hard pressed to save the tottering Marxist dictatorship of President Noor Mohammed Taraki from an Islamic rebellion in Afghanistan...
...DELHI--President Nur Mohammed Taraki of Afghanistan resigned the presidency and leadership of the ruling party here yesterday, as intensifying rebel warfare and political dissension pushed the country into turmoil...
...Cuban delegates insist there is a "natural alliance" between the nonaligned movement and the "socialist world," meaning the Soviet bloc. In Havana the pro-Soviet drive can probably count on the support of such far-flung fellow Marxist regimes as Angola, which still harbors Cuban troops on its territory; Afghanistan, which relies on Soviet assistance to stave off an Islamic insurgency; and Viet Nam, which has been a fully official Soviet ally ever since its "peace and friendship" treaty with Moscow last year...
...than any other contemporary director, his film-making skills remain primitive; even his adaptations of his own brilliant theater productions (King Lear, Marat/Sade) have been flat. Here he is hobbled by lapses in continuity, fake-looking studio sets and a multinational cast. The scenery, much of it shot in Afghanistan, is breathtaking, but the photography is routine. What is needed is some sort of theatricality-if not the forthright vulgarity of DeMille, then at least the romanticism of David Lean. With its incongruous mix of radical content and stodgy style, Remarkable Men is as doomed as an artistic collaboration between...
...potential collusion between us and the Soviet Union in creating spheres of influence. It also had an unsettling effect on Pakistan. I do not want to imply, though, that there was much we could have done about it locally. But the fact that the coup in Afghanistan seemed to have no influence on our relationship with the Soviet Union was upsetting to others in the region...