Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free speech and free markets, and repeatedly assured the military they had nothing to fear from a P.P.P. regime. Praising the army's restraint as "critical to the restoration of democracy," she embraced the military's interests: close ties with the West, continued support for the mujahedin in Afghanistan and development of Pakistan's unacknowledged nuclear-weapons capability...
...report from Kabul broadcast on last week's Soviet television program International Panorama startled some viewers. Remarked veteran correspondent Mikhail Leshchinsky: "It may be said that the People's Democratic Party is not actually the ruling party in Afghanistan." Official leak or not, that represented another public step away from the Soviet-backed regime of Afghan President Najibullah. For months the ruling P.D.P. has been riven by a bitter internecine war over the correctness of Moscow and Najibullah's policy of "national reconciliation...
...region and encourage multinational attempts to forge a Central American peace settlement. Such an approach would be a logical extension of Washington's diplomatic efforts elsewhere. Says Joaquin Villalobos, a Salvadoran rebel leader: "There is a worldwide negotiations process to which the U.S. has committed itself in Afghanistan, Angola and Cambodia. Why can't the Administration play a real role in Central America...
...taxing the rich. At the same time, she has made it clear that there will be no witch- hunts in the army if she is elected. Bhutto promises to maintain good relations with the U.S. and says she will uphold Pakistan's pledge to aid the mujahedin rebels in Afghanistan. Alliance candidates, for their part, intend to play on bad memories among Pakistanis of her father's administration, which ended in turmoil after the government allegedly rigged elections...
...treaty is bogged down with several technical problems that may not be easily solved. But on Afghanistan, the Soviets already have pledged to have all their forces out by February...