Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cashmere rises, the supply is severely limited. The best cashmere is woven from the hair of Kashmir goats that are now raised in China and Mongolia. By the time the finest white cashmere reaches the U.S., it costs up to $200 a yard. A lower grade from Iran and Afghanistan goes for $100 a yard. Experiments to breed the goats elsewhere are being tried in Australia, New Zealand, Iowa, Montana and Colorado. But removed from the deserts and mountains of their rugged natural habitat, the animals grow fat and so far have produced a disappointingly coarse undercoat...
Earlier today, as he opened talks with Shultz, Mikhail Gorbachev pledged to achieve peace in Afghanistan and to try reach a new nuclear arms agreement by spring...
...estimated 115,000 Soviet troops have been in Afghanistan since December 1979, backing a pro Moscow government at war with U.S.-armed Moslem guerrillas...
...picture-taking session, Gorbachev said the Soviets would "do our best to achieve peace in Afghanistan and to have a non-aligned, neutral Afghanistan which would have good relations with its neighors, with the United States and with the Soviet Union...
...news conference, Shultz said he did not have the "slightest doubt" that the Soviet Union would leave Afghanistan. But Shultz, who came here saying he would seek a specific timetable, gave no evidence he had received...