Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks with Secretary of State Haig and Reagan as chaleureuses re-trouvailles (warm rediscoveries) of friendship. Relations between Washington and Paris cooled during the Carter years, and particularly so after President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing proved notably slow and mild in condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
Every day, around the globe, the hearts and minds of people like Deepak Kumar-as well as his parents and friends-are reached on a battlefield in the East-West struggle where words are the chief weapons. With their troops occupying Afghanistan and massed to pounce on Poland, the Soviets have a lot to explain these days. Through a propaganda effort perhaps seven times as large as that of the U.S., and with more sophistication than ever before, they are doing just that...
...broadcast, which opened with an account of President Reagan's second press conference, touched on events in the Mideast, Atlanta, Poland, Afghanistan and Pakistan before concluding with the 64-year old broadcaster's 40-second au revoir to his audience...
...issue since Afghanistan has exacerbated differences in the Communist world as much as Poland. For months Enrico Berlinguer's inde pendent-minded Partita Comunista Italiano had become ever bolder in its sup port for Poland's independent unions. In a communique last December, it even warned the Kremlin of "extremely grave consequences" in the event of a Soviet invasion-meaning that the P.C.I, might break with Moscow altogether. Last week, in a rare public display of a Communist family quarrel, the Soviet Communist Party was revealed as having blasted Berlinguer in no uncertain terms. The Italian weekly Panorama...
...Rome-based organization will stage a hearing in May on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Wald, who is a permanent member of the Tribunal said he will "very likely" participate...