Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This approach was in strong contrast both to Jimmy Carter's reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when he ordered an embargo on U.S. grain sales to the U.S.S.R. and a boycott of the Moscow Olympics, and to Reagan's own response to the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, when he tried a variety of economic sanctions that irritated U.S. allies more than they annoyed the Soviets...
...grew more urgent. Just before boarding Air Force One for the trip back to Washington, a grim Reagan mounted an outdoor podium and read an extraordinary statement. Calling the Soviet attack a "barbaric act," the President implied that it reflected baser motives than even the 1979 U.S.S.R. invasion of Afghanistan. "While events in Afghanistan and elsewhere have left few illusions about the willingness of the Soviet Union to advance its interests through violence and intimidation, all of us had hoped that certain irreducible standards of civilized behavior nonetheless obtained," he declared. "But this event shocks the sensibilities of people everywhere...
When we think about Central America, we should remember Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba, Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. As a 22-year-old who is planning to join the Navy, I say it is time America used the "big stick" to stop the spread of Communism...
...Soviets have let a handful of their Siberian Pentecostals go; they are looking, or pretending to look (it is still hard to tell which) for a way of pulling their occupation troops out of Afghanistan. The Reagan Administration, in addition to cautiously welcoming these and other Soviet steps, is making a few of its own: resuming consular negotiations and sending a delegation off to Moscow to negotiate "confidence-building measures," like upgrading the hot line. The two countries have agreed on a major sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. The State Department is musing about how to engage...
...agreement helps soothe the jangled nerves caused by U.S. policies during the past few years on sales to the Soviet Union. In 1980 the Carter Administration imposed a partial embargo on such sales in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviets responded by lining up other suppliers, including Argentina, Canada, the European Community and Australia. Result: the embargo was almost ineffective and cut the U.S. out of sales just when Soviet demands were surging. During the past twelve months those sources supplied 80% of Moscow's import needs. Before the embargo, the U.S. provided 70% of Soviet...