Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan yesterday directed Secretary of State George P. Shultz to go to Geneva to sign "historic accords" by which the United States and Soviet Union will guarantee a peace agreement dictating the removal of all Red Army troops from Afghanistan...
...peace settlement, negotiated between Pakistan and Afghanistan under the auspices of the United Nations, is to be signed on Thursday...
...nations have shielded their conflicts from public scrutiny in a similar fashion. The bloody ground war between Iran and Iraq goes unmentioned in the world's press for months at a time because reporters have no access to the front lines. In the first years after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, almost nothing was known about the course of the conflict, though thousands were dying. When reporters cannot be kept out, governments seem increasingly willing to resort to intimidation and sabotage. In Panama, General Manuel Noriega tried to solve the problem of a bad press last week by having troops harass...
When is an arms cutoff not an arms cutoff? That was the riddle confronting Washington last week as it pondered what could be the final obstacle in talks on a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan. The trouble stems from a U.S. demand that Moscow end all military aid to the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul once Washington stops sending weapons to the mujahedin. Moscow refused to go along, and Washington offered a compromise: the U.S. will allow the Soviets to keep supplying Kabul if Moscow allows Washington to continue arming the rebels...
Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov called the novel approach "unacceptable," and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze again threatened a unilateral Soviet troop pullout. That would leave Moscow with no obligation to help restore peace in Afghanistan or resettle the 2 million Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan...