Word: afghanistan
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Some U.S. foreign policy analysts fear that the Administration may be putting too high a priority on terrorism at the expense of dealing with Moscow's more worrisome invasion of Afghanistan and troop buildups near Poland. There is also increasing The Security Adviser concern among some experts that Haig is talking too tough, no matter how much the White House may agree with his sentiments...
...unacceptable challenge to Moscow. Experts in Bonn and London tend to share that gloomy view, but still feel that the Soviets would move only as a last resort. Says one senior British diplomat: "If they send in the Red Army, they will have created a nightmare that will make Afghanistan look like a tea party." The Soviets still have 55 divisions poised within striking distance of Poland. While there is no sign that they have stepped up their state of readiness, the upcoming Warsaw Pact winter maneuvers could serve as a cover for a Soviet move. There seems little chance...
...often outproduce and outtrade us. Our power is challenged by growing Soviet ambitions and military prowess; by OPEC's endless extortions; by a chaotic, largely hostile Third World. Much of this situation was symbolized by two recent events that showed the U.S. relatively powerless: the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis...
...Soviets' lack of political interest extends to the situation in Afghanistan. Most Soviets have no idea how many Soviet troops are presently there. The conflict in Afghanistan has not exercised a major impact on Soviet life, although most Soviets agree that the food situation is worse now than during any time in the recent past. Soviets do not understand the West's "preoccupation" with Afghanistan. Those members of the intelligentsia who already have entered into opposition to the state would joke about the intervention: Q: Why have Soviet troops stayed in Afghanistan so long? A: Because they haven't been...
...makes many Western observers uneasy. Only last fall, a Soviet trade official at the Hanover Fair in West Germany was heard to threaten to halt existing gas deliveries if the West Germans failed to be "cooperative" in opposing Western trade sanctions against the Soviet Union following its invasion of Afghanistan. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently wrote in an editorial that it would be wiser for West Germany to build four additional nuclear reactors, which would provide an equivalent amount of energy at the same price as the Soviet gas deal...