Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 was, in one significant and ominous sense, something quite new: the Soviet army's first sustained advance beyond the sphere of influence established in 1945. In another sense, however, the invasion of Afghanistan was consistent with Soviet behavior since World War II. It demonstrated again the U.S.S.R.'s proclivity for using brute force as the best way to ensure an "absence of danger," and for filling vacuums created by the limits of Western diplomacy and alliances. In ordering that invasion, the Soviet leaders calculated correctly that they were not risking...
...election. As it is, Marchais's support inside the party is hardly unanimous. Members of the rank and file are unhappy with his strict, sometimes overbearing control of party machinery. Many intellectuals have bolted over his obdurate refusal to allow internal debate or criticize the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...condemnation of Soviet expansionism in Angola and Afghanistan, as well as potential Soviet action in Poland...
...memory of Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia and Hungary is vivid. Withdrawing from Olympic competition and introducing resolutions in the United Nations are too feeble responses to Soviet intervention in independent states. We must let the Soviets know that we will not hesitate to prevent the sale of advanced technology, to cut off scientific and cultural exchanges and to bolster our new alliance with China (possibly even with the sale of non-nuclear arms and computer technology) if Soviet troops invade Poland. We should not renounce the SALT negotiation process, engage in a costly arms race or attempt to starve the Soviet people...
Weinberger: Well, I think that it is very much to the interests of the West and people who are for freedom and for peace to insure that aggression of the type that's practiced in Afghanistan--and I hope will not be practiced in Poland but is at least being threatened there--the people who are resisting that [aggression] need support from people who love freedom and peace all over the world. I would not argue with the president's statements on the subject, that these are freedom fighters and some support should be considered if they request...