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...same message to farmers in Iowa, where many of them last year planted extra acres in corn, expecting to sell it to the Soviets. He told an audience in Harlan: "They knew they were taking a risk. Risk taking is part of farming. I have the tough and brutal decision: Do I accommodate those people who have made the wrong decision? Well, no, I don't think we should...
...leaders found that their views of the Iranian and Afghan crises coincided. Responding to a dinner toast, with Sadat nodding his approval, Begin denounced Khomeini's rule as "an outburst of dark fanaticism, of black hatred." Later he termed the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan "one of the most brutal acts of our time." "Thank God," he noted somewhat smugly at one point, "Egypt and Israel, unlike these two negative phenomena, are on the side of right, not wrong, of justice, not its opposite, of freedom, and not slavery...
...dozen years, the momentum of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the sheer importance of what was being negotiated helped SALT to survive the sometimes quixotic workings of American democracy and the sometimes brutal vicissitudes of Soviet behavior. President Carter's decision to request a postponement of the Senate debate on ratification of the SALT treaty could spell the end not just of SALT II but of the prospects for SALT III, the SALT process as a whole, and the array of lesser arms-control negotiations in which progress has often depended on the SALT bellwether. Among them: talks...
...SOVIET INVASION of Afghanistan ranks as one of the most cynical and brutal violations of sovereignty in recent years. To aid Afghan insurgents fighting Soviet aggression and to prevent the repetition of such aggression elsewhere, the United States must take strong measures including arming Afghan rebels and Pakistan to raise the cost of invasion for the Soviet Union to prohibitive levels...
...March, thousands of Afghans in Herat (pop. 150,000), a provincial capital 400 miles west of Kabul, rose in a revolt that lasted for several days. An estimated 20,000 civilians lost their lives; so did at least 20 Soviet advisers and their families in a series of brutal rebel attacks...