Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DOES HARVARD BOTHER about Afghanistan? It doesn't seem so. Afghanistan has been the topic of discussion on only a very few occasions, during my year and a half at first the Kennedy School and then the Center for International Affairs...
Campus seems to ignore Afghanistan...
...continues. Refugees keep pouring into Pakistan and Iran, augmenting the refugee population which now exceeds 4.5 million people. This is by far the world's largest refugee tragedy. It is the result of a deliberate Soviet policy aimed at destroying civilian life in Afghanistan...
Afghans are a special breed; unlike most people in the third world they never have been colonized. Three British attempts in the 19th and early 20th centuries to extend British India's border into Afghanistan were fended off by the fiercly independent Afghans...
Gorbachev was less forthcoming on the question of Afghanistan. India has long sought reassurances that the Kremlin would withdraw the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan, and Gandhi again pressed for a complete withdrawal. At a press conference Gorbachev said he could not give a timetable for withdrawal but had been encouraged by a United Nations peace effort involving Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. At the same time, Gandhi refused to endorse a Soviet proposal to convene an Asian Security Conference along the lines of the European Security Conference that produced the 1975 Helsinki agreement. Gandhi brushed...