Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military might, Moscow has become badly mired in its attempt to subdue rebel forces in Afghanistan. The Pentagon study estimates that the Soviets now have 105,000 troops there, up 30,000 since the invasion three years ago. It also charges that they have violated international treaties by using chemical weapons and "scorched-earth tactics." The Soviets have even deployed their brand-new Su-25 Frogfoot attack plane, designed to provide close air support in battles. Nevertheless, they have been unable to control the Afghan countryside. Says the study: "After more than three years, the Soviets find themselves embroiled...
...Gandhi appealed to Iran and Iraq "to end their tragic war" and demanded respect for the "legitimate rights" of the Palestinians. She said that Israel was "unabashed in its aggression" and predictably named South Africa as "the other notorious outlaw." Mrs. Gandhi also asked vaguely for "early normalcy" in Afghanistan, but, in what many considered an outrageous omission, failed to mention so much as a word about the occupation of that country by some 100,000 Soviet troops...
...drug bust last week between the Khyber Pass and Peshawar in northwest Pakistan was one of the biggest in history. Yet it represented just a fraction of the exports from the so-called Golden Crescent, an area spanning parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran that produces the lion's share of the world's heroin. The raw material for the drug is grown in 100,000 acres of opium-poppy fields, processed in local laboratories and smuggled out through Pakistan. The Golden Crescent accounts for as much as 90% of the heroin sold in Western Europe and more...
...Britain "an occupied country" because of the U.S. military bases there. Conversely, they applauded when former Prime Minister Lord Alec Douglas-Home said, "I am fearful when I see unilateralists sending out signals to a dictatorship that is mobilized with enormous armed forces and practices its doctrine in Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan and Poland." Home and Beloff carried the day. showing that, at Oxford at least, pacifism...
...ties with the mainland. They argue that the communists are erratic and untrustworthy--too unreliable to be allies. Yet such an attitude neglects the weight good Sino-American relations have already had in world affairs--such as the force China lent to world outcry against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In addition, denigrating the importance of mainland China ignored the possibility that its natural resources and fairly well-controlled masses could propel it to a position of world power...