Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old rebel, who has been visiting college campuses across the United States under the pseudonym Hamed Khanjar, told the Science Center crowd that "Afghanistan has never before been conquered, and I believe that Afghanistan will be free again...
Heymann also proposed that to raise the world market price for heroin the U.S. should buy poppy seeds in Iran and Afghanistan. While this may have been a good idea, "you could never find a Congressman to allocate money for it," Coleman says...
...indicative of what seems to me to be a general policy of not devoting much space to the discussion of human rights issues in the Soviet Union. University events such as the ones that the Democratic and Republican Clubs co-sponsored to alert students to Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan, and the Hillel Committee for Oppressed Jewry's 24-hour rally and letter writing on behalf of Soviet refuseniks, receive woefully little attention in your newspaper...
...test case for hard-line conservatives on the Administration's commitment to the so-called Reagan Doctrine. The President affirmed that policy a year ago in his State of the Union address. "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua, to defy Soviet-supported aggression," Reagan stated. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense...
...lesson in forgetting by remembering extended to foreign policy as well. Proclaiming America's commitment to "extend the family of freedom," he promised to help freedom fighters everywhere in order to assure that "all God's children" will achieve their dreams. But Reagan remembers this commitment only in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua--all countries with Soviet backed governments. He conveniently forgot El Salvador, the Phillipines, and Chile. The struggle by Black South Africans to end apartheid was noticably absent from his text...