Word: assisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move against Afghanistan was the first time since World War II that Moscow had used significant numbers of its own armed forces in a state outside the Warsaw Pact. It seemed an ominous extension into Asia of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserts that Moscow has the right to assist any socialist state in trouble. Moscow, of course, claimed that it intervened only at the request of the Karmal government under the terms of a 20-year friendship treaty signed in December 1978. The Russians made no attempt to disguise the fact that the airlift began two days before the coup...
There were some bright spots to remember from the trip, but most of them occurred off the ice. When play was on, Fusco (three goals) and Tom Murray (two goals and an assist) led Crimson scorers out west with three points apiece...