Word: afghanistan
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...take part in their rival Black Sea and Caspian Sea cooperation zones. China has cautiously proposed joint-venture projects, and even the South Koreans have offered a taste of free enterprise with a fast-food restaurant in the Kazakhstan capital of Alma-Ata. If an Islamic regime emerges in Afghanistan, the Asian republics can expect strong overtures to bring about fraternal ties...
...standoff between the government of President Najibullah and ^ Afghanistan's mujahedin, the beleaguered regime in Kabul is now clearly placing its hopes on a settlement brokered by the United Nations. Last week Najibullah tried to give that process a jog by publicly reiterating his longstanding offer to step out of the presidency and renounce any future political role as soon as a neutral interim government is formed under U.N. auspices. Said the President on national television: "I have agreed to transfer all authority to the transitional government...
...postwar years, we implemented a two-pronged strategy to blunt Moscow's main thrust in Europe, using military power to deter aggression and economic power through the Marshall Plan to counter the communist ideological challenge. We later beat back Soviet salients in Korea, the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan and elsewhere...
Often in the Reagan years, American covert operations (including those in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola) involved "lethal assistance" to insurgent forces: arms, mercenaries, military advisers and explosives. In Poland the Pope, the President and Casey embarked on the opposite path: "What they had to do was let the natural forces already in place play this out and not get their fingerprints on it," explains an analyst. What emerges from the Reagan- Casey collaboration is a carefully calibrated operation whose scope was modest compared with other CIA activities. "If Casey were around now, he'd be having some smiles," observes...
...gloating over the demise of the flag that waved over the Gulag and over the tanks crushing Prague, Afghanistan and Moscow itself -- the flag in whose name the recent putschists ordered 250,000 handcuffs to be ready...