Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AFGHANISTAN. With Syria and Marxist South Yemen dissenting, the conference passed a Saudi-backed resolution committing Tunisia, Guinea, Iran and Pakistan to assist U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in seeking a settlement. It stopped short of condemning the 1979 Soviet invasion, but called for the withdrawal of the 80,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq reported "intimations of flexibility" from both the Soviets and their puppet in Kabul, Babrak Karmal. But the militant Afghan rebels, in spite of their close relations with the Saudis, adamantly refused to sit down with representatives of Karmal...
...said the reported decision by President Reagan to continue for the time being the embargo on selling grain to the Soviet Union is in line with Pipes' State Department transition report. Reagan sharply criticized former president Jimmy Carter during the campaign for imposing the embargo after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, saying it unfairly penalized U.S. farmers. But Pipes wrote that there was no hurry to remove the freeze and recommended that it be kept in place at least for the first few months of the Reagan administration, a fellow member of the team said recently...
...each door. The Americans could watch three German TV channels, but preferred the English-language armed forces station. In a third-floor library they could catch up on U.S. newspapers and magazines and even watch video tapes recapping world events they had missed, ranging from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the death of Mae West...
...Algeria as a militantly pro-Soviet regime has gradually changed since the death of President Houari Boumedienne from a rare blood disease two years ago. His successor, President Chadli, 51, has pragmatically tried to improve relations with the West. Moreover, relations with Moscow have cooled since the invasion of Afghanistan, and there are signs that Algeria wants to escape from its dependence on the U.S.S.R. for military equipment...
...Soviet bluster has probably not improved its position in Iran. Soviet-Iranian relations soured considerably after the invasion of Afghanistan. A Soviet diplomat was expelled from Tehran in June for spying, and a group of Afghan exiles last month stormed the Soviet embassy and smashed some furniture. The Soviets formally complained to Iran about this "criminal violation of the norm in relations between the states" and warned ominously that if Tehran cannot protect the embassy, "the Soviet Union will undertake the task." Last week the Iranian foreign ministry finally agreed to pay for the damage, but it accused Moscow...