Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have Shultz's remarks translated, but he did reply in Russian. As they sat in U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick's office for their three-hour meeting, Gromyko gave a grim assessment of Soviet-American relations. Shultz, in turn, pressed Gromyko on Moscow's intervention in Poland, Afghanistan and Cambodia, and on use of biological and chemical weapons. The conference produced few concrete results; the main accomplishment was keeping businesslike discussions alive and agreeing to meet again this week...
...next two years helped form what it is now almost a motto with the lineman: politics should stay out of sports. Not only did President Carter end Pellegrini's Olympic dreams because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but Restic refused to invite his former starter back to training camp for the 1981 season because of a policy that prevents players who take a year off from returning to the football team...
...cracks in the Soviets' façade of iron invincibility could hardly have come at a more inopportune time for them. The leadership situation is fuzzy. Their forces are still bogged down in Afghanistan even though they have increased their strength to 100,000 troops. Worries about unrest in Poland are rising again. All this adds up, in the minds of some U.S. analysts, to a belief that for the moment the Soviet Union is less inclined to take aggressive action in faraway places. Score one for Yankee ingenuity-something we had almost forgotten...
...began a series of trials that federal officials hope will strike the fear of Uncle Sam into young men who have failed to register. The drama in Roanoke can be traced to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Congress to fund a registration system so that any subsequent draft could produce an army quickly. Candidate Ronald Reagan said he opposed the system, but once in office retained it on the grounds of "national safety." Under the law, males must report to a post office within 30 days before or after their 18th birthday...
...correspondents in the U.S.S.R., and has shown a flair for finding stories that irk the sensibilities of the Kremlin. This month, for instance, Newsweek carried Nagorski's report on the anxieties of draft-age youths in Tajikistan, a republic bordering the Soviet client government of parlous Afghanistan. Earlier he had detailed the fondness of ranking bureaucrats for racy Western films that are banned for the Soviet masses, and had exposed the bribes extracted by a circus director who chose which performers traveled abroad. More consequential, in April Newsweek nettled the Soviets with a decidedly premature cover story, to which...