Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some students may prefer Florida, but a Yale junior and a recent graduate spent their Spring break journeying through Pakistan and Soviet occupied Afghanistan where they witnessed fierce battles between Afghani insurgents and Soviet led government troops...
...Afghanistan was invaded by Soviet troops four years ago and ever since has been the site of a bitter struggle between the guerillas and the combined Soviet and Afghani armies...
...journey became more harrowing as Bork and D'Elia passed into Afghanistan Accompanied by ten muhajedeen fighters, a guide, and an interpreter, they went thirty miles into the Afghan province of Paktia, crossing snow-covered mountains laced with Soviet air-dropped mines, and passing bombed-out villages...
Bork and D'Elia spent a day hiding from prowling Soviet helicopter gunships, and a night observing the battle from the top of a mud-walled house. But as Soviet forces came nearer they decided to return to Pakistan having spent five days in Afghanistan. After resting in Peshawar for three' days, they returned to the United States...
...Salvador. Never mind that there are several thousand [Cuban and East bloc] military advisers in Nicaragua. And 40,000 Cuban troops in Angola and Ethiopia. Never mind that there are well over 1 00,000 Soviet combatants attempting to impose a Communist regime on the unwilling people of Afghanistan. Never mind that U.S. rifles whose serial numbers identify them as equipment left behind by our troops in Viet Nam have been intercepted en route to insurgents in El Salvador. Those facts seem to be discarded...