Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan's Jihad...
...article on Afghanistan [WORLD, Sept. 10] corroborates the view that continued resistance by Afghan freedom fighters can only lead to genocide. The U.S.S.R. will not back off until Afghanistan is subdued. Meanwhile, the U.S. goads the Afghans to resist, resulting in the destruction of the land and its people. The way out of this situation is to negotiate a truce. It is sad but true that "it is better to be Red than dead...
...devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan planned to open this section by reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals in dealing with Moscow: a series of discussions on regional crisis areas, including Afghanistan, Central America and southern Africa; comprehensive arms-control negotiations; and wider agreements on trade, cultural and scientific affairs...
...softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...encouraged by the Vienna overture, scrambled to find a new opening. In mid-August, they suggested to Reagan that he revive the custom of inviting the Soviet Foreign Minister to Washington during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. (The tradition lapsed in 1979, when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan soured relations with the U.S.) Reagan agreed to the visit and authorized the State Department to invite Gromyko to meet with Shultz in New York on Sept. 26 and call at the White House two days later. In late August the Soviets accepted. The two countries decided jointly that they...