Word: afghanistan
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...expansion. It tended to Infer Soviet control of whatever the United States government didn't like, for example the nuclear freeze movement, the Sandinistas, or Muammar Qaddafi. And since Third World outposts like Nicaragua or Libya or Angola were easier to get at than places like Poland or Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really are the equivalent of the Afghan puppet regime or the Polish dictatorship, then how to thwart or evict them becomes...
...nations, one full ring off the Olympic charm bracelet of continents, disengaged from Montreal in 1976 rather than associate with New Zealand, whose rugby team had scrummed in apartheid-infested South Africa. The U.S. and 35 sympathizers boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With Americans currently enraged at the U.S.S.R. for shooting down a Korean airliner last month, and many U.S. arenas slamming their doors to traveling troupes of Soviet athletes, Moscow is being coy about its participation in Los Angeles. "Perverting the Olympic ideals," the triweekly newspaper Soviet Culture reports, "American...
...regarding the conflict. Though a crucial history very pertinent to events today, few people have actually tried to learn about Vietnam by themselves. Vietnam's most important result may be to encourage people to be more informed and aware of the issues at stake right now in places like Afghanistan, Lebanon, Angola and El Salvador...
...usual suspects: Soviet feelings of inferiority, hypersensitivity, paranoia, suspiciousness, what have you. These explanations do not satisfy. For what was so stunning about the Soviet reponse was its lack of feeling. What sent a chill through the world (as even more ruthless Soviet behavior like the invasion of Afghanistan had not) was the undertone of stony incomprehension in the Soviet response to pleas for some acknowledgment of responsibility. One sensed the absence of a certain faculty: a heart grown so cold that it had lost the capacity for remorse...
...West's unilateralists will go in trying to absolve the USS of any wrongdoing. This summer the World Council of Churches, in a statement belying that innocuous title, told us that Poland was in Russia's sphere of influence and so we should not worry about it, and that Afghanistan was really not worth mentioning, since it might pact Third World and Eastern Bloc representatives to the Council. Now we have a Crimson editorial blaming the callous destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on the continuing atmosphere of distrust brought on by the Cold War, and an article...