Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funeral services for Palme, scheduled for March 15 at Stockholm's city hall. A panoply of world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, will attend. In keeping with the slain Prime Minister's disdain for dictatorships, five countries--Chile, Afghanistan, Paraguay, Kampuchea and South Africa--were pointedly excluded from the ceremonies...
...first element of the new interventionism was proclaimed in President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union address, and has become known as the Reagan Doctrine. The President pledged American support to "those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet- supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth...
Americans are inclined to support "freedom fighters," but the Reagan Doctrine addresses only one kind: those fighting "Soviet-supported aggression." In practice this has meant anti- Communist guerrillas in four countries (Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua), all of whom the Administration is now assisting either overtly or covertly...
...love of freedom is strong among the people of Afghanistan. We will struggle for freedom to the death," Khanjar said...
...short film, "Afghanistan: Freedom's Frontier," provided by the Committee for a Free Afghanistan, followed last night's speech...