Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks the government of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been sending signals that it is ready -- even desperate -- to disentangle itself from Afghanistan. On the eve of this week's summit meeting between the Soviet leader and President Ronald Reagan, the pace of the diplomatic maneuvering quickened. Before leaving Moscow for Washington, Gorbachev told NBC's Tom Brokaw that if the U.S. really wanted to find a "political" solution to the conflict, "it could be done very quickly." For his part, Reagan said in a speech last week that it was time for the Soviet troops in Afghanistan to "pack...
...Hind helicopter gunships were taken almost entirely out of the fighting by the Stingers. They flew only a few sorties under cover of night, when Stingers are difficult to aim. Said mujahedin Leader Massood Khalili of the helicopters' decline: "For nine years the dragon ruled the skies over Afghanistan. Now the dragon is dead...
...image Gorbachev projected was divorced from the reality of what he actually said: that the Berlin Wall was built by East Germany to protect itself from outside interference; that Moscow restricts emigration in order to thwart Western attempts to create a brain drain; that Soviet troops are in Afghanistan because of repeated requests from that country for protection from foreign subversion; that the U.S.S.R. is pursuing its own Star Wars research...
...anger grip the Caribbean nation after goon squads abort balloting, leaving at least 50 civilians dead and raising troubling questions about army complicity. -- Polish voters reject a government- proposed program of economic reform and austerity. -- With the U. S.- backed rebels gaining, the Soviets seek a quick exit from Afghanistan...
...degree to which American TV was being manipulated. All three networks, as well as CNN, had sought a pre-summit interview with Gorbachev, but the Soviets gave the exclusive nod to NBC. CBS executives complained that their network was being punished for aggressive coverage of the war in Afghanistan and Dan Rather's combative questioning of Gorbachev in Paris two years ago. NBC executives preferred to see their coup as the fruit of a 2 1/2-year negotiating campaign by veteran NBC News Executive Gordon Manning...