Word: afghanistan
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...America's founding fathers, that approving view of the benefits of commerce among rival powers seems to have few adherents in official Washington these days. Hamilton's thesis is regarded by President Reagan as a dangerous illusion that should have been shattered by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Moscow's role in bringing repression to Poland and the steady build-up of the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. The Administration's approach has outraged Washington's European allies, who, like Hamilton, see trade as a lubricant that can ease international tensions...
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi arrives in Washington this week for her first official visit in nearly eleven years. Her mission is to narrow India's differences with the U.S. on a number of issues. Among them: Washington's vocal opposition to the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the sale of 40 American F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan and the controversial U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Prime Minister's son, Rajiv, her heir apparent, will accompany her on the trip. On the eve of her departure, Gandhi discussed foreign and domestic...
...desperately selling gold and diamond reserves. The pipeline would annually provide an estimated $10 million in hard currency once the gas began flowing west. Much of that will be used to prop up repressive satellites like Cuba and Vietnam and to purchase military hardware for ventures such as the Afghanistan takeover. A pipeline, Reagan argues correctly, would not only send badly needed currency to Moscow, but would also increase Western European energy dependence on the Soviets. Plans call for the pipeline to provide up to 30 percent of total French and West German natural...
...Soviets, according to most Western analysts, the long-term goal is control of Middle East oil. In Afghanistan, they have built a new airfield in the corner of the country closest to the mouth of the Persian Gulf. In the Horn of Africa last week, Soviet-backed Ethiopia attacked its traditional enemy next door, Somalia, probably with the help of Cuban and East German advisers. If the Ethiopians should defeat Somalia, they and their
...explanation for Moscow's hands-off policy is that the aging leadership in the Kremlin already has enough worries without looking for more in the Middle East. While some 100,000 Soviet troops remain bogged down fighting guerrillas in Afghanistan, Moscow must keep a watchful eye on Poland's precarious military regime. And although the U.S. and the Soviet Union have finally begun arms-reduction talks in Geneva, relations between the two superpowers are getting increasingly strained. The latest irritant is the Reagan Administration's ban on the sale of equipment that Moscow badly needs to build...