Word: enlistable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet invasion continued to reverberate across Southwest Asia. In different ways, Pakistan, India and Iran were all being nervously conditioned by the potential threat of further Soviet moves, whether military or diplomatic. Pakistan scrambled to enlist foreign support for its defense. A quick response came from neighboring China. Making the most of a previously scheduled visit, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua toured Afghan refugee camps and emphasized Peking's three-fold commitment: to support the insurgency, to aid the 440,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, most important, to "safeguard Pakistan's national independence and security...