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Over and over again, especially toward the end of any discussion of Afghanistan, the issue of proximity kept coming up. Warned Begmatova: "I say to you as a human being, as a woman, as a mother and as a grandmother, that country [Afghanistan] is right on our border." Gairat Sapargaliyev, a law professor in Alma-Ata, said: "Afghanistan is, after all, a country on our own border!" Sapar Baizhanov, the editor in chief of Socialist Kazakhstan, put it this way: "We're not talking about Canada, after all, we're talking about a country on our own borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Proximity and Self-Interest | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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