Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After nine years and two months of humiliation, frustration and defeat on the battle grounds of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union was bringing the last of its boys home. For the demoralized Soviets, the deceptively festive homecoming in Termez marked the closing phase of a nine-month pullout that is scheduled to conclude this week with the return of the last 20,000 Soviet troops...
...shattered Afghanistan, the outlook ahead is far grimmer: more war, more bloodshed, more despair. With 1 million dead, 2 million uprooted from their homes and another 5 million claiming temporary asylum in neighboring countries, Afghanistan is bracing for a duel to the death between Najibullah's shaky regime and the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels. No one knows whether the Soviets will mount cross-border air raids to thwart the rebels' designs, or if Washington intends to keep open its not-so-covert arms pipeline through Pakistan to the rebels. But even if the superpowers bow out entirely, both sides...
...Afghanistan's only hope for a halt to the savagery rests with the shura, or consultative council, that convened in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi last Friday. The 526-member council is composed of representatives from the seven- party mujahedin alliance that operates out of Pakistan and the eight mujahedin parties based in Iran. Their aim is to designate an interim - government that would supplant the Najibullah regime. But last week's meeting, attended by 420 delegates, gave little cause for optimism. The council's session lasted just 40 minutes, then disintegrated into chaos over the question of just...
...Washington, Bush said Thursday that the United States will continue helping guerrilla groups in Afghanistan after the Soviet Army's withdrawal. The guerillas say the government will soon fall...
...Delhi, Vorontsov criticized the Bush Administration for continuing its aid to the insurgents. He said it was trying to plunge Afghanistan into a bloodbath following the Soviet withdrawal...