Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bhutto--who is scheduled to arrive in Cambridge late tonight to deliver tomorrow's Commencement address--pledged that the "day of the dictator" in Pakistan was over and discussed with the President possible courses of action the U.S. and Pakistan could take to end the ongoing bloodshed in Afghanistan...
...troops in Europe, with corresponding cuts in NATO aircraft and helicopters, if the Soviets agree to reduce their conventional forces to the levels the West has proposed. He is also expected to relax sanctions on trade with the Soviets imposed by the U.S. after the Red Army invaded Afghanistan...
...dozen Soviets landed in Washington last week, but they were not mere tourists. Veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, they came through an exchange that has also taken some 50 American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were...
...late President Zia ul-Haq, Gul has wielded enormous power ever since his appointment in 1987. Besides keeping tabs on Zia's political foes, including the Bhutto family, the ISI also distributed foreign money and arms to the mujahedin rebels fighting the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime in Afghanistan...
Though Shevardnadze is smoother than Gromyko, he can be just as tough as his predecessor. It was Shevardnadze, after all, who forced an unhappy President Najibullah to accept the fact that the Soviets were leaving Afghanistan. In February he told Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, that the Soviet Union would no longer support the A.N.C.'s "war of national liberation" in southern Africa. And, when necessary, Shevardnadze will blatantly lie, as British officials believe he did when he told Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month that the Soviet Union possessed only a fraction of the chemical...