Word: alexiev
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...French polling organization IPSOS, 53% of respondents favored total withdrawal. Even worse, Najib has failed to gain significant support despite launching a "national reconciliation" effort in which the burly leader disavowed Communism and offered bribes to win supporters. The war, meanwhile, is going disastrously for the Soviets. Says Alex Alexiev, a senior analyst at the Rand Corp. "They are at their wits...
...open for Moscow to exercise considerable influence in Afghanistan after withdrawal. In fact, in talks with the Soviets, the State Department has appeared willing to make concessions -- for instance, countenancing an Afghan-Soviet defense pact -- so long as the Soviets remove their troops. "It is high time," says Analyst Alexiev, "for the Administration to realize that the only way to stop the bloodshed in Afghanistan is an unconditional Soviet withdrawal...
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