Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pakistan's security: Pakistan is faced with a problem next door, in Afghanistan, where the Soviet Union now has 100,000 troops. I don't think you can intimidate a nation like Pakistan with the presence of troops next door. But it has brought a qualitative change in the total geopolitical environment of this region. A superpower occupying a free country, an Islamic country, just because it wants to secure its underbelly, is something of great concern to us. Irrespective of the size, population or strength of a country, people have to exist in their own right...
...Soviet Union: I know that the Soviet Union is looking for a solution to the Afghanistan problem. The Soviet Union is in difficulty. It is in difficulty internally. It is in difficulty in Poland. It is in difficulty in Kampuchea, indirectly. And it is in great difficulty in Afghanistan. This is my own view, and I hope I'm right: if they can find a face-saving device, the Soviets do want to withdraw from Afghanistan. As for Pakistan, we have made it abundantly clear that there are four basic principles upon which we cannot compromise: the Soviet troops...
...every two or three years and buy new equipment. We have to look ahead for 20 years. We are very grateful to President Reagan. When we got the offer of F-16s, we jumped. With this aircraft, our borders, which are now threatened by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, will be somewhat secure. Of course, 40 planes cannot make all the difference, but the presence of a superior aircraft gives you at least that much moral as well as military ascendancy...
...blood, urine and tissue samples that are contaminated with rare fungal poisons known as mycotoxins, the key lethal ingredient in yellow rain. At a press conference that followed Shultz's statement, State Department officials showed one of two Soviet gas masks that they said had been captured in Afghanistan. One taken from the head of a dead Soviet soldier, the other obtained clandestinely in Kabul, each apparently carried traces of mycotoxins, which had presumably been used in attacks against Afghan rebels. The State Department also released photographs showing the skin lesions that afflict yellow-rain victims...
...cynical disregard for international law and agreements." So declared Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he presented a new ten-page report that, for the second time this year, accused the Soviet Union and its ally Viet Nam of using biochemical weapons against native rebel forces in Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia in flagrant violation of two major international accords. Since 1975, U.S. officials charge, nearly 10,000 people have died as the result of "yellow rain," a distinctive yellowish mist that is sprayed from planes or that bursts from shells and bombs, and then falls to the ground...