Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China and the U.S.S.R. fought a border conflict in 1969. Ten years later, China invaded Communist Viet Nam to "teach it a lesson" for Hanoi's attempt to conquer Communist Cambodia. China is currently assisting the Muslim "holy warriors" who are trying to topple the Communist government of Afghanistan...
...since Chancellor Willy Brandt helped launch his Ostpolitik in 1970 by meeting with East German Premier Willi Stoph in Erfurt, 40 miles east of the frontier. Initiated by the East Germans, the weekend summit had been twice postponed because of East-West friction over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing crisis in Poland. A further irritant was provided last year by the Honecker government's new currency regulations, which greatly increased the cost of travel from West to East and thus reduced the number of such trips by West Germans by 20% in the past...
...became the Secretary-General's special representative in strife-torn Cyprus. Four years later, Waldheim appointed Pérez Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Most recently, he represented Waldheim in an effort to solve the ticklish issue raised by the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan. In that assignment, which produced no concrete result, Pérez exercised the discretion that no doubt won him the Soviet Union's endorsement...
...than two years ago when he was still trying to thwart NATO'S decision to install new weapons in response to the Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe. Brezhnev, who was making his first trip to the West since the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had been successfully upstaged by Ronald Reagan. Concluded a State Department official: "The Soviets found themselves playing catch...
...others, anybody who wants to suppress the young in the striving toward new experiences and knowledge." He defines fascism as "the bourgeoisie in arms against the proletariat," and professes himself a supporter of the burgeoning European peace movement. So what was his reaction to the violent Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? "Ah," says Henze, "that was the [Soviet] workers in arms...