Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rumania (pop. 23 million) has sometimes steered a diplomatic course independent of Moscow. The country, for example, refused to participate in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, does not allow the military organization to hold maneuvers on its soil, and refused to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...agreement, which would have expired in 1985, as "obsolete, unratified and being violated." He stressed that the Administration is interested in drastic reductions in nuclear arsenals and said that from now on the U.S. will decide its arms policy on Soviet behavior, including human rights violations and actions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia...
...sights of the superpowers. Tibet was stormed by the Chinese, and now the dreamed-of Shangri- La is vanished forever; Cambodia was caught in a cross fire, and an earthly paradise so gentle that ricksha drivers were said to tip their passengers is now a land of skulls; Afghanistan was overrun by Soviet tanks, and now a book of photographs remembering its fugitive beauties is subtitled, mournfully, Paradise Lost. In an age when airlines and satellites are rapidly turning the global village into the smallest of small worlds, no man can be an island. These days, not even an island...
...guerrilla supply lines and unify the ranks of a regime so sharply divided that it is sometimes referred to as an example of "two-party Communism." If Najibullah can consolidate a solid and loyal Soviet-style government, Moscow may feel secure enough to withdraw its 120,000 troops from Afghanistan...
...carefully reanalyzing problems does not preclude action on your convictions. Listening to others opinions does not mean you have to agree with them. Reminding people that a problem exists does not mean you are assuming superiority. If that were true then the conservatives who remind us of suffering in Afghanistan are equally guilty. The generalizations about all liberals made by The Crimson are partly groundless, partly ludicrous, and partly based on a small minority. There are thousands of students at Harvard. The majority voted for Mondale in the campus poll taken in 1984; they would be characterized as liberal...