Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buffeted by a chilling wind that funneled down the gorges of the Panjshir Valley in northeast Afghanistan, three horsemen urged their mounts up a rocky defile at a punishing trot. Traders and refugees walking the same path late last month could tell by the men's heavy field jackets and Soviet-made automatic rifles that they were officers of the mujahedin, the Afghan resistance fighters who now control the once fiercely contested valley. Few of the walkers bothered to look carefully at the sparsely bearded, intense face of the lead rider as he passed. Had they done so, they would...
...response, Jeffrey Clarke '90, a Slavic Studies concentrator, questioned the wisdom of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, suggesting that it provided fodder for the "big bear" image. "That was a mistake--a bad move," one Soviet panel member said...
...University looks at the department and says, `You haven't got hundreds of students,' so it doesn't offer money." says Frye, who lectures in six different Indo-European languages. "The problem is that people haven't found out about the Middle East yet. There's a war in Afghanistan, but people in America think the country is in Africa...
...Harvard foreign policy expert Stanley Hoffmann calls it. The Joint Chiefs of Staff came over to the White House the other day to meet with Reagan and reported their services in excellent readiness but with an unprecedented lack of battles to fight. Peace is threatening in Iran-Iraq, Kampuchea, Afghanistan, southern Africa and even Central America...
...fluently. As they battled homesickness during their orientation period, many found solace in front of a campus VCR. During a showing of Platoon, the tiny TV room looked like a Tokyo train at rush hour. Erlan Sagadiyev, 21, who served in the army for two years, explained that the Afghanistan war had greatly fanned Soviet interest in the Viet...