Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Orenstein said also that a group made up of local students opposing United State intervention in Southern Africa and in Central America has held organizational meetings and plans to join the April rally.
Western estimates are that the Soviets have lost up to 8,000 soldiers in their seven years of military intervention in Afghanistan.
Andrei Sakharov seemed determined to make up for lost time. Within moments of returning to Moscow from seven years of "internal exile" in the city of Gorky, Sakharov spoke out on precisely the issues that landed him in Gorky in January 1980. Asked by reporters to comment on Moscow's...
Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the internal police agency in the Justice Department to investigate the delay. Justice Department intervention in an FBI probe is extremely unusual.
Looming in the background is the Soviet Union, and its distant rival, the United States. In the inevitable struggle of internal political forces to succeed Khomeini, the potential of Soviet intervention cannot be completely ruled out. The 1921 treaty with Iran could be invoked to justify such an intervention on...