Word: afghanistan
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...charges, the Administration last week released a 32-page summary of its evidence, prepared by the State Department and based in part on secret Pentagon and CIA reports. The document charged that since 1975, the Soviets and their allies have launched at least 432 chemical attacks in Indochina and Afghanistan, killing more than 10,000 people. The chemicals involved include nerve gas, mustard gas, lewisite and mycotoxins...
...well as the testimony of eyewitnesses to yellow-rain attacks, journalists and doctors treating refugees. Said Stoessel of the use of these chemicals in Indochina: "Thousands have been killed or severely injured. Thousands have also been driven from their homeland by the use of these agents." As for Afghanistan, he added, Soviet forces have used a variety of lethal and nonlethal chemical weapons against rebel forces since the invasion in December...
...Western response to the Polish crisis. There must not be any weakness in the face of those who suppress the Polish people. There are leaders in Europe-I won't mention their names-who, while Afghanistan was being occupied, met with Brezhnev in Warsaw [former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing] or Moscow [West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt], This, to me, was an act of weakness...
...Brezhnev offered to renew negotiations on the border disputes that provoked major skirmishes along the Ussuri River frontier in 1969. The Soviets have important reasons to seek a reduction in tensions with China. Faced with domestic economic strains and a dangerous hemorrhaging of resources in Poland and Afghanistan, Moscow may want to limit pressure along the 4,200-mile-long border with China, which is now defended by 46 Soviet divisions...
...have not changed their strategic posture, which holds that the real threat comes from the Soviet Union." Last week Peking once again attacked the Soviet Union as the "most dangerous source of war in the world today." In a reference to the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which many Chinese interpreted as a move to encircle their country with pro-Soviet states, the People's Daily warned: "Don't forget Afghanistan...