Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin aide talks about Reagan, the MX and Afghanistan...
...Reporter Felix Rosenthal, Arbatov predictably blamed the U.S. for fueling the arms race. He stressed the Soviet Union's opposition to the MX missile, but he indicated that there was a Soviet willingness to find a political solution to the presence of some 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Excerpts...
...American leaders, including Secretary Shultz. We don't have to prove first that we are good boys, and only then will you be kind enough to talk about normalizing relations. You demand from us that we yield at the Geneva arms talks, at Madrid, over human rights, Afghanistan and Poland. We could make a similar menu of demands to the U.S. as a precondition...
...been stressing regional issues like Afghanistan and Poland, and you put stress on the arms race. How can this difference be reconciled...
...U.S.S.R.'s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 surprised most U.S. Kremlin-watchers. So did Soviet inactivity during the recent war in Lebanon. After Leonid Brezhnev's death two weeks ago, American Kremlinologists were still suggesting the names of his potential successors when Yuri Andropov was chosen...