Word: afghanistan
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...production outside the Communist bloc. With 119 U.S. bases and 51,550 American troops on its soil, Japan has become the keystone of U.S. defense strategy in the Pacific. When the U.S. called on its allies to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Japan was among the first to join. It also followed the U.S. lead in imposing economic sanctions against Poland...
...Kenneth Moss, a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where the resolution is being reviewed, yesterday described the resolution, like the "Afghanistan Freedom Day" resolution, as "symbolic" and "restorative of the concern of the U.S. over human rights...
...adviser, one of the moving forces behind the 1972 international treaty that banned the development of biochemical weapons. Now, Meselson is garnering headlines as the principal challenger to the U.S. Government's position that the Soviet Union or its allies are using deadly chemical weapons in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan...
...fully explain all parts of the chemical warfare riddle, among them persistent refugee reports of yellow rain, and illness and death associated with yellow rain: the discovery of trichothecene mycotoxins in alleged samples of yellow rain, as well as blood and urine, and a Soviet gas mask found in Afghanistan containing the illegal toxin. Nevertheless, Meselson sums up, "Whatever the source of these toxins, which we weren't able to explain, at least these spots that people are picking up are probably the excrement of bees...
...slow pace of the Madrid talks has provided a fairly accurate reflection of the frosty state of relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the past three years. The conference began in a chill, eleven months after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As the deadline for beginning the meeting approached, the participants could not even agree on an agenda for their gathering. They arbitrarily stopped the conference clock at five minutes before midnight in order to continue thrashing out their differences...