Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. The remarks came on top of Greece's continuing opposition to the deployment of new NATO missiles in Western Europe, as well as Papandreou's refusal to condemn Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and Poland...
...system that they cannot act human? Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believed they had found at least an auricle of Leonid Brezhnev, and detente followed. Jimmy Carter, who hand-penned some notes to Brezhnev, even thought the replies were special-until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
...continued presence in the Cabinet of the four Communist ministers as well as the future of Party Leader Georges Marchais, who has not spoken publicly about the voting results. Marchais's pro-Soviet line has been under fire by some French comrades since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Moscow's crackdown on Poland. The party was further handicapped by its ambivalent role as both a junior partner in the Mitterrand Cabinet and a critic of the government's unpopular economic austerity measures. Said a government official last week: "The Communists' best bet might...
...proposal, to make it appear more reasonable, the policymaking process had become too confused and the international atmosphere too poisonous for a breakthrough to be possible. The Soviets deserve much of the blame. Their tightening of the screws in Poland, their brutality against the guerrillas resisting their occupation of Afghanistan, their political pressure tactics against Western Europe-all these developments contributed to the overall deterioration in East-West relations and therefore in the prospects for arms control...
...author of this admirable memoir began the 1930s as a journalistic adventurer of 26, jauntily evading an English blockade of the Khyber Pass to reach Afghanistan. By 1940 he regarded himself as middleaged, worn by work, fear and revulsion, after several years of broadcasting and writing from within the increasingly brutal world of Hitler's Germany...