Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeatedly insisted that any political settlement must include the governing People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan...
...KABUL, Afghanistan--President Najib said today the nation's war could end in a negotiated settlement within weeks, and that representatives of his Marxist government have talked with Moslem guerillas...
...official acknowledged, Baker is having a difficult time competing with Gorbachev's high-profile diplomacy. The Soviet leader is withdrawing Soviet troops from Afghanistan and has offered to remove six tank divisions and 50,000 men from Eastern Europe...
...decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which revived China's longstanding fear of Russian "hegemony...
...border issues, Gorbachev agreed in his Vladivostok speech to pare Soviet claims. Last April the Soviets announced a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan, scheduled to end next week. The third obstacle, Kampuchea, has proved somewhat less tractable, with the future role of pro-Vietnamese and pro-Chinese political factions inside the country still clouded in uncertainty. But progress has been sufficient to inspire a Deng-Gorbachev dialogue...