Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people live in dignity and democracy; on the other side, in domination and defeat." Schmidt somberly noted that his visit was taking place against the background of a "serious international situation." He referred specifically to "the excessive Soviet arms buildup and the challenge of the continuing Soviet intervention in Afghanistan...
President Reagan has lifted the grain embargo on the Soviet Union [May 4]. Never let it be said that America allowed a single Soviet soldier in Afghanistan to go hungry, or deprived the Soviet army on the Polish border of its daily bread...
Calling the Soviet presence in Afghanistan an "open sore" in U.S.-Soviet relations, the commission contends the U.S. should "respond positively" to requests for military supplies from the Afghan resistance...
Franco-Soviet Relations. Mitterrand is likely to take a harder line toward the Soviet Union than Giscard-despite his relationship with Moscow's most loyal European Communist Party. The President-elect strongly denounced the Afghanistan invasion and, as one senior British diplomat observed, "has no illusions about Soviet motivations and intentions." Pravda, which praised Giscard's commitment to detente and was openly rooting for him in the election, lamented last week that the Socialist leader would probably adopt the " 'tough positions' of the Western side...
...charter. As the Socialists increased in popularity, the Communists recoiled in envy. The Common Program fell apart prior to the 1978 legislative elections. Some old Communist habits made a comeback: the P.C.F. was the only Western European Communist party, for example, to endorse the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...