Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russell's statement is a positive realization that the Service and the Justice Department have not been able to fully carry out the disciplinary aspects of the registration law, proposed by Jimmy Carter in January 1980 after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In fact, the government has fallen miles short of Turnage's stated goal, largely because of a breakdown in coordination between the Selective Service--which gathers potential registrants--and the Justice Department--which is charged with prosecuting evaders. That disorganization by itself would not be very encouraging as an indicator of how federal agencies enforce federal laws...
...sickened by the assassination of Benigno Aquino [Sept. 5]. In all the furor over human rights in Afghanistan, Iran, El Salvador and Soviet-bloc countries, the U.S. has consistently overlooked the atrocities committed in the Philippines. Now is the time to take a close look at what is happening there and with whom we are allying ourselves...
Between them, members of the Politburo share enough foreign policy savvy to have realized the consequence of destroying an unarmed passenger jet, particularly since memories of the world's revulsion after the invasion of Afghanistan and the toppling of Solidarity are still fresh. Surely Yuri Andropov would not discard his hopes for Western European neutralism, or the Soviet Union's image among impressionable Third World countries, in order to flex his military muscle. In all probability, Andropov and Co. were not even consulted about flight 007. Instead, a general on the ground followed standing instructions to the hilt and ordered...
...Western bloc reacted with outrage and anger at the murder of 269 innocents is natural. Yet these emotions must not let our hearts dictate to our minds. In truth, the passengers of flight 007 were victims of a war--the Cold War. When civilians die in El Salvador or Afghanistan, our hurt is tempered by the notion that the dead were in the middle of a war zone. The Korean Airlines jet flew into the most subtle and ultimately pernicious war zone of them all--the gulf that separates East and West. As tension mounts and technology becomes increasingly difficult...
...minimum, the Soviets have suffered a devastating blow to their ability to pose as peace lovers eager for détente and disarmament. The brutality of their action seems to have shocked the world more than the invasion of Afghanistan and the repression in Poland, which were at least explicable as power politics...