Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's speech used stern words to criticize the Soviets, not only for their treatment of Daniloff, an American journalist arrested in Moscow, but also for their treatment of civilians in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and their insistence on supporting Marxist-Leninist insurrections around the world...
...Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and SALT was postponed. In December 1979 the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that the U.S. Senate would not ratify the SALT II treaty. In September 1983 Soviet air-defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary of State George Shultz to throttle back his effort to re- engage the U.S.S.R. in quiet diplomacy. In March 1985 a Soviet...
...Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, the Soviet Union saw political instability on its border and the danger of unfriendly regimes coming to power. So Moscow, thumbing its nose at world opinion, moved in with tanks and paratroopers. In the other cases, there was either an act or an accusation of spying. The Soviets are preoccupied with espionage in a way that is difficult for Americans to understand. As custodians of a closed and paranoid political system, they are obsessed with protecting their own secrets and finding out those of their enemies...
When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran drove the Asian-crescent drug trade through Pakistan, the number of heroin addicts there went from virtually nil in 1980 to some 650,000 abusers today. (The U.S.S.R. is not unscathed by the global epidemic; Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan are said to trade their weapons for opium and hashish...
...keynote address opening the conference, Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Robert Mugabe sought to sound a statesmanlike note. He expressed dismay at rising world military expenditures and attacked foreign interference in all parts of the world. Mugabe called for an end to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea, while attacking the U.S. for supporting Nicaraguan contras and rebels in Angola. He urged his fellow heads of state to provide economic aid if needed by the black African "frontline" states that are seeking to cut off trade with South Africa. In a television interview...