Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip was unannounced, perhaps to ensure that increasingly accurate mujahedin antiaircraft gunners would not be paying special attention to the skies around Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. But when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Anatoli Dobrynin, the chief of the Central Committee's International Department and for 24 years Moscow's Ambassador to Washington, stepped off their plane at Kabul's international airport last week, it was obvious that the Soviet Union was sending a public -- and very interesting -- message. Shevardnadze and Dobrynin, the most senior Moscow officials to visit Afghanistan since Soviet troops invaded that country...
...scene was Independence Square in N'Djamena, capital of the war-torn Central African state of Chad, and the crowd of 200,000 was the largest the city had ever seen. Facing the podium from the flatbed of a ten-wheel German truck were 21 Libyan prisoners of war, some of them wounded and all of them disheveled and frightened. For a moment a heavy silence hung over the square. Then, as a great roar rose from the crowd, hundreds of people ran toward the vehicle, throwing sticks and stones. The Libyans cowered to protect themselves against the onslaught...
...People's Daily denounced the students in the strongest possible terms, saying that their marches for university reform, elections and a free press were an "inevitable outcome" of "the spread of bourgeois liberalization." The editorial almost certainly had the full approval of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and the full Central Committee...
...incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral. What will the host wear to his soiree? At Marbella there is a small warehouse, called the Central European Distribution Center, for Khashoggi's clothes. More than 1,000 handmade suits, encased in plastic and ranging from size 46 to 56 to accommodate Khashoggi's shifting figure, line the walls, sorted by color. The clothes are shipped to each of his homes so that he will have...
Drug abuse in the Soviet Union stems mainly from the use of koknar, or opium made from poppy seeds, and anashi, a substance similar to marijuana, made from the cannabis plant. Both crops grow wild in the country's Central Asian region. Poppies are also cultivated legally, mainly for use in medicines. The Soviet approach to treating abusers of such drugs tends to be punitive. Under a new law, youthful offenders may be incarcerated for up to two years in a police-run "preventive educational treatment center." The job of these institutions, according to a recent article in the Soviet...