Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They met for nearly five hours over the day, ranging over Afghanistan, the Middle East, the Iran-Iraq war, human rights and other issues before Shultz hosted a dinner for the Soviet visitor at the State Department...
...Shultz's key goals are to narrow differences in the way of a treaty to scrap U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles so it can be signed this year at a superpower summit and persuading the Soviets to adopt a short timetable for withdrawing 115,000 troops from Afghanistan...
...earlier harsh depictions of the Soviet Union, he made clear that he still deeply distrusts Moscow. "While talking about reforms at home," he said, "the Soviet Union has stepped up its efforts to impose a failed system on others." He charged Moscow with "indiscriminate bombing and civilian massacre" in Afghanistan and challenged the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall and "show some glasnost in your military affairs" by publishing an accurate defense budget...
...sells out all 1.5 million issues every week. Under the editorship of Vitaly Korotich, the magazine has published a 1939 testament from an exiled Bolshevik denouncing Stalin as "the real enemy of the nation, and the organizer of famine and fake trials." It also sent a young reporter to Afghanistan to write candid accounts of the increasingly unpopular...
...vignettes from the American home front after Viet Nam? No, those complaints came last week from the pages of the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda. They apparently were a bid to whip up concern for the sacrifices made by servicemen in the estimated 115,000-member Soviet force occupying Afghanistan. One letter writer from Volgograd wondered why tombstones of Soviet soldiers make no mention of service in Afghanistan. "The war is still going," she wrote, "and we are already trying to blot it from our memories...