Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Soviet Union. Two weeks ago, Hurricane Andrew hit the Bahamas, then ripped through Florida and Louisiana. Last week the chain of disasters continued. Tropical Storm Polly drenched eastern China and killed at least 150 people. Typhoon Omar, which had earlier raked Guam, headed for the Philippines. In Afghanistan flash floods swept through the valleys of the Hindu Kush, leaving hundreds dead or missing...
...starve peasants in forced famines, purge political opponents and resettle entire ethnic groups. The financing of terrorists, who received arms shipments from Soviet warships on the high seas. The personal enrichment of party leaders. The sale of diamonds and gold abroad to buy food and consumer goods for wartorn Afghanistan at a time when there were chronic shortages at home. The squandering of hard currency on more than 70 communist movements around the globe. In one bizarre incident, the party funded training for Italian communists in radio codes and cosmetic surgery -- in case they had to go into hiding...
...million people, many of whom are bitterly discontented. New violence already has broken out in Tibet, according to reports reaching London. In Europe there are feelings of repression and aspirations toward autonomy, if not independence, among Hungarians in Romania, Turks in Bulgaria and Poles in Lithuania, among others. In Afghanistan civil war could yet pit southern Pashtun against northern Uzbek and Tajik in a conflict that could spill over into neighboring Pakistan and the formerly Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan...
...much modern history as the fifth-floor corner conference room at No. 4 Staraya Ploshchad, a few blocks from the Kremlin. Seated in brown leather swivel chairs around a wooden table, the ruling Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made its decisions to invade Afghanistan, reduce nuclear weapons, settle questions of Kremlin succession. It was in this room that Mikhail Gorbachev first discussed reform policies that would change the world and bring the U.S.S.R. to an end. Today the headquarters of the once powerful party belongs to Russia's new democratic leadership: Boris Yeltsin's team...
Like Jimmy Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Bush would like it known that after Los Angeles, the scales fell from his eyes. "The time really has come to try a new way . . . making our commitment to end poverty and despair greater than ever before." However, the distinguishing feature of the conservative antipoverty agenda that Bush has now embraced is not its newness -- or even its rightness or wrongness -- but its cheapness. At the state level, in the name of welfare "reform," benefits are simply being slashed. The cost of "enterprise zones" is hidden in the form...