Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afghan-resistance supporters said nearly a thousand volunteers will march 10 miles through Cambridge and Arlington this Sunday to raise money for the victims of what the protest organizers consider "a form of a Holocaust"--the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan...
...march, sponsored by The Free Afghanistan Alliance, will begin after a brief noon-time ceremony featuring Alexy Semyonov, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov's step-son, and Camelia Sadat, daughter of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...from Soviet TV, beamed in via satellite, has become popular since Columbia started the practice in 1984. One reason for the scholarly surge: the warming climate of glasnost created by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But interest in Soviet studies has gained momentum steadily since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the renewed tensions between the superpowers over nuclear arms early in the Reagan presidency. Observes Russian History Professor James West of Trinity College in Connecticut: "We're one of the fields that benefit from disaster. Russian studies were almost lost with detente...
Shevardnadze, alluding to U.S. support for the guerrillas, said the key issue for the Soviets was "having assurance against interference in internal affairs" in Afghanistan...
...Afghanistan, however, Redman reiterated that the United States wants a Soviet withdrawal and "a process of reconciliation." That would involve replacing the pro-Moscow government in Kabul with a coalition including the Afghan guerrillas at war with the Red Army...