Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side, the Reagan Administration has stepped up a campaign of military pressure on Soviet clients, blasting Soviet- installed missile sites in Libya, lobbying for resumed military aid to the contras in Nicaragua, and now supplying missiles to anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola and rebels battling the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Then there have been symbolic actions that infuriated Moscow: a naval mission skirted U.S.S.R. waters to eavesdrop on Soviet communications on the Black Sea coast, and the U.S. ordered 38% of the Soviet diplomats at the United Nations (many of them spies, in the Administration's view) to be sent...
...says one national-security adviser, wants another summit, but with Soviet rather than American concessions. "We would like them to engage in a fundamental reassessment of their policy on regional issues," he says. "Until now the Soviets have not been seriously challenged in their regional initiatives--Afghanistan, Angola, Libya, Nicaragua--and they may have overextended themselves. Like every bureaucracy, the tendency has been for them to muddle through. Now we want them to learn what the costs are of all this adventure...
...played by American corporations in providing Moscow with the military technology used to subjugate the Soviet Union's neighbors and threaten American national security. The Ford Motor Company constructed an automobile plant at Gorkii which produces motors for the T-72 tank, the workhouse of the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Swindell-Dressler helped build the Kama River Truck plant which also produces vehicles used by the Red Army in Afghanistan. The Bryant Chucking Grinder Company of Vermont sold the Kremlin the ball bearings without which the construction of the SS-20 missile would have been impossible. J. Fred Bucy, president...
Although both supported the use of covertoperations, they criticized the ReaganAdministration for its handling of affairs inNicaragua and Afghanistan...
Helms pointed to the administration's decisionto supply Stinger anti-aircraft missiled to therebels in Afghanistan to emphasize that supposedlycovert operations were becoming overt...