Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS MONTH MARKS the sixth anniversary of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Poorly-armed Afghan freedom fighters, known in their own language as "mujahedin," have somehow managed to hold out against over 100,000 Soviet troops armed with the most advanced military hardware ever used on a civilian population. Although Afghanistan is presently the site of the worst genocidal atrocities since World War II, the U.S. news media continues to virtually ignore the Afghan struggle by devoting little or no broadcast time or print space...
...Khan as a spiritual leader. However, he is not the spiritual leader of 14 million Pakistanis; rather he is the spiritual leader (Iman) of a Muslim minority group known as the Nizari Ismailis who live in various countries. In addition to Pakistan, these countries include India, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Kenya, Tanzania and more recently Britain, Canada and the United States. The Aga Khan and his ancestors base their claims to leadership of the Nizari Ismaili community on their direct genealogical descent from the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad...
...grand strategies of superpower diplomacy were undercut last week by individual lunges for freedom. In Afghanistan, troops of the Soviet-backed Communist government surrounded the U.S. embassy in Kabul after a 19-year-old Soviet soldier slipped in through an open gate. Embassy personnel were allowed to come and go, but electricity to the building was cut off while U.S. diplomats tried to determine whether the soldier was seeking political asylum. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, en route to Moscow for presummit consultations: "Our posture is to do our best to look after his interests...
Lagon said he has organized a forum in conjunction with the Democratic Club to help publicize Soviet abuses in Afghanistan, and to encourage Harvard students to become more involved in protests against the country...
...physicist, who has been exiled to Gorky since 1980 for his criticism of Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, told his stepchildren that he is recovering from losing 44 pounds during his fast...