Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major foreign policy address to the Supreme Soviet legislature on Monday, Shevardnadze also condemned his predecessors' decision to send troops into Afghanistan, calling it a "gross violation" of Soviet law and ethics...
Shevardnadze denounced the decision by the late President Leonid I. Brezhnev to send Soviet soldiers into Afghanistan in December 1979 to help the Marxist government there fight the anti-communist guerrillas...
...first time highly placed Soviets have disclosed that the decision to intervene in Afghanistan was made by a small circle around Brezhnev. But it had not previously been characterized by a government spokesman as an outright violation...
...last Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan in February...
...command far more coverage than less glamorous causes of violent death. On the same day that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that led to the execution of the second and third highest officers of government rated two paragraphs. Murders of Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia were cited in part of one paragraph in a more...