Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mouth is nothing new to Michael Pillsbury, who until last week was the Defense Department's assistant under secretary for policy planning. Although he had been sacked from two other jobs, Pillsbury's latest pink slip, issued for allegedly telling reporters that the Administration had begun supplying rebels in Afghanistan and Angola with U.S.-made Stinger missiles, disturbed civil libertarians. The firing was based partly on Pillsbury's answers to questions on a polygraph test. The case has also been referred to the Justice Department, apparently as a stern message about the Reagan Administration's resolve to plug leaks. Pillsbury...
...present Mr. Rajiv Gandhi has too much of a tilt to the Soviet Union," said Swamy, adding that he believes the greatest threat in India is from the Soviets in Afghanistan...
...Soviet Union, citing nuclear tests, Administration efforts to reduce the number of Soviet diplomats at the United Nations and U.S. maneuvers in the Black Sea. American officials, in turn, expressed "confusion" over such Soviet activities as supplying surface-to-air missiles to Libya and stepped-up attacks in Afghanistan. Each side complained that the other was stalling on arms negotiations, and then agreed that there was a "reason to re-engage...
...TOUGH QUESTIONS are exactly what Arbatov and and other high-ranking officials of the Soviet government must be forced to answer when they come to places like Harvard. The list of ongoing wrongs for which the Soviet regime must be held accountable goes on and on; Afghanistan's million-plus dead only top the list. And Arbatov was allowed to brush it all aside last week in the name of "relevance...
Harvard's blindness toward the destruction of Afghanistan and other Soviet crimes becomes more puzzling and saddening to me every year. We hold an extremely high standard to ourselves and those connected with us, and in almost all cases that is as it should be. Is it so much to ask that everyone, when they come here, be held to the same high standard...