Word: afghanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Valley in northeast Afghanistan, three horsemen urged their mounts up a rocky defile at a punishing trot. Traders and refugees walking the same path late last month could tell by the men's heavy field jackets and Soviet-made automatic rifles that they were officers of the mujahedin, the Afghan resistance fighters who now control the once fiercely contested valley. Few of the walkers bothered to look carefully at the sparsely bearded, intense face of the lead rider as he passed. Had they done so, they would have recognized a man who has become a legend across Afghanistan, the "Lion...
View, broadcast on Friday night, routinely touches taboo topics and raw nerve ends. The show's reporters have interviewed young neo-Nazis, Soviet investigators on the Mafia beat and Afghan vets who brawled with police and have the bruises to show for it. Even the music carries a message, whether it be a video from the Eurythmics that uses snippets from the film 1984 or a satiric jazz ditty from the Soviet group Akvarium, complete with Stalinist-era newsreels and pictures of a booted foot atop a typewriter and a saxophone. The show's philosophy, as explained by Zakharov...
...Afghan project was open to bidding and B.U. was granted rights and finances. "B.U. was the best equipped bidder," said O'Connell. "They had already engaged in journalism training...
Bill Anthony, press secretary for Humphrey, also denied a clear link with the CIA. "As far as [the Afghan program] being a CIA effort, that is in dispute. We don't feel that...
Bernice Buresh and several colleagues agreed. Buresh resigned as B.U. Associate Journalism Professor at the end of the spring term this year on "journalistic grounds and the grounds that [the Afghan project] was likely to be part of an intelligence project...