Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin's account of Soviet involvement in Afghanistan [Nov. 22] is an extraordinary mixture of minor revelations mixed with half-truths, significant omissions, distortions and falsities...
...immediately emerged as the strongman of the Taraki regime. These and other questionable assertions would not have escaped the attention of any high-ranking KGB officer specializing in the area. One is forced to wonder about Mr. Kuzichkin's motives in making these statements. Rosanne Klass, Director Afghanistan Information Center New York City
...conquerors: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the British raj. Today, Pakistan has as much geopolitical importance as it had centuries ago. To the west lies an Iran convulsed by Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, to the east a teeming, sometimes hostile India, to the north and west an Afghanistan occupied by the Soviet army. When Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, 58, meets President Reagan in Washington this week, strategic issues, not surprisingly, will dominate the agenda...
...Pakistan had been suspended because the Carter Administration believed that Pakistan was using U.S.-supplied plutonium to develop a weapons-grade nuclear capability, an allegation Zia denies (see interview). But in 1981 Congress authorized a resumption of assistance, mainly because Soviet troops had invaded Afghanistan...
...backing of Israel. The Reagan Administration would like Zia to curb Pakistan's opium production. According to drug-enforcement agents, an estimated 70% of the heroin (derived from opium) coming into the U.S. either originates in or passes through Pakistan. But overshadowing all else is Soviet activity in Afghanistan, which has driven 2.8 million Afghans to seek refuge in Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat in Islamabad: "Sometimes Zia's streak of religious fanaticism scares me. But he's the best we've got in a very dangerous situation...