Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target date is two weeks before Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan begin their summit in the Soviet capital. Agreement on Afghanistan would resolve an issue that has troubled relations for nearly a decade, prompting a U.S. grain embargo and keeping Americans home from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow...
...There is certain to be a signed agreement on political normalization," Tass quoted Gorbachev as saying while he toured a collective farm near Tashkent after the meeting. "I think both Pakistan and Afghanistan will come to agreement, and that we and the Americans will agree to be guarantors...
...quoted by Pakistan's official news agency, said: "According to unofficial reports, the two superpowers have agreed on the symmetry under which both would be able to provide continued assistance ot their respective allies in Afghanistan." No details of the alleged agreement were given...
Soviet officials claimed earlier this week that Pakistan, Afghanistan's eastern neighbor, and the United States were delaying a settlement. They threatened to make a separate withdrawl arrangement with the Afghan leadership if the Geneva talks failed...
Moslem insurgents began fighting in Afghanistan after a Communist coup in April 1978. Soviet military forces entered the coutry in December 1979 and an estimated 115,000 soldiers are there now to help fight the guerrillas...