Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled to hold his fourth summit meeting with Ronald Reagan. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze were in Geneva last week making the final arrangements for the session. On the eve of the summit, Gorbachev is hoping that by cutting his losses in Afghanistan, he will win friends and influence governments around the globe. If he can allay concerns about Soviet intentions from the Pacific to the Caribbean, Gorbachev may persuade a mistrustful world to lower its guard and permit more maneuvering room for Soviet diplomacy. To that end, he wants to restore the atmosphere...
...Angola and Ethiopia in Africa to Nicaragua in Latin America, Kremlin-backed or Kremlin-installed regimes had an ominous look of permanence. After all, Soviet power, once entrenched beyond its own borders, had never allowed itself to be dislodged by local resistance. There was no reason to think Afghanistan would be different. Quite the contrary, tucked up against the soft underbelly of Soviet Central Asia, that benighted country seemed to have become virtually a 16th republic of the U.S.S.R...
...American President had advanced a new, more assertive variant of containment, the so-called Reagan Doctrine of support for anti-Communist insurgents. Moreover, the war was an impediment to Soviet diplomacy. Wherever Moscow's emissaries went, especially in the Arab and Islamic worlds, the first question was "What about Afghanistan...
...best- known America watcher. "We are going to do something terrible to you -- we are going to deprive you of an enemy." Gorbachev would have the world believe he is ready to do with the cold war what he is starting to do with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan: he is declaring it over...
...result, U.S. policymakers are skeptical as they look for further evidence -- an Exhibit B or C -- that the Soviet Union is changing its deeds as well as its words. To date, they see plenty of signs beyond Afghanistan that the Kremlin has adopted a slicker diplomacy. But the substance is still often flimsy and the objective is still competitive. Michael Armacost, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, has been conducting talks with Soviet officials on what he calls "super-regional" issues -- trouble spots like the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, which could ignite a clash between the superpowers...