Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowing other citizens to make their views about Soviet policy known. Before Gorbachev's arrival, thousands of Parisians took part in demonstrations protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews and the state of human rights not only in the U.S.S.R. but also in such client states as Viet Nam and Afghanistan. While Gorbachev and his wife attended their Elysee dinner, more than 1,000 people paid about $2.50 each to attend a screening of the U.S. movie Sakharov and to hear speeches by prominent emigres. Police arrested about 30 demonstrators, including Soviet Mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who defied a ban on demonstrations...
Harvard Professor of Anthropology C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky said that the Russian site in Sarazm, near the Afghanistan border, uncarthed another major urban center from the time of the Bronze...
Last week as the General Assembly opened, the motorcades of the Presidents of Peru and Brazil sat stuck in stretch- limo gridlock, while outside the U.N. the first of countless demonstrations--includi ng one organized by the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews and another protesting the Afghanistan invasion--pressed against police barricades. As Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz hymned the praises of peace inside the vast General Assembly chamber, sharpshooters crouched on nearby rooftops, police helicopters whirred overhead, and U.S. Coast Guard boats patrolled the East River, which courses past the U.N.'s great...
...from the heads of state or foreign ministers of 148 of its 159 member states. In speeches last week, a long parade of leaders inveighed against most of the world's ills, including Latin America's crippling $370 billion debt, famine in Africa, war and terrorism in Central America, Afghanistan and the Mideast, apartheid in South Africa, and the nuclear arms race. Amid the rhetorical hand wringing, Foreign Minister Suppiah Dhanabalan of Singapore cautioned, "There is a clear danger that this organization may become irrelevant to issues of peace and security, the primary issues for which it was founded...
Reagan and Gorbachev have a full slate of issues aside from arms control to discuss in Geneva. These include "regional problems," a euphemism for hot spots like Central America, Afghanistan and the Middle East. A number of "bilateral issues" are also on the agenda, ranging from restoring Aeroflot flights between Moscow and New York City, which were suspended after the Soviets declared martial law in Poland in 1981, to discussing the "peaceful exploration of space." The Soviets refuse, however, to talk about human rights. The American side feels the Soviets are dragging their feet on the bilateral issues...