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...along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan in the 1960s. Western experts noted at the time that it would make an ideal invasion route. So it did in 1979, when the Kremlin decided to extend "fraternal assistance" to the beleaguered Afghan Communist regime. Soon the highway will prove useful once again, as the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, whom the Kremlin described nine long years ago as a "temporary contingent," begin heading home...
...continuing overall Soviet design for the conquest of the world. More moderate experts, like Diplomat and Historian George Kennan, the father of the doctrine that the U.S. and its allies must "contain" Soviet expansionism around the globe, had another explanation. They believed that Leonid Brezhnev and the other Kremlin gerontocrats were seeking a buffer zone against Islamic ferment in Iran, much as Joseph Stalin had erected the Iron Curtain to protect the U.S.S.R. against its enemies in the West after World...
Previewing the summit in Moscow, Reagan said he hoped more progress can be made in the area of human rights, and that the Kremlin still has not lived up to promises made in the Helsinki accords on that subject...
Despite the public show of unity, even Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze acknowledged at a press conference that Kremlin views sometimes vary widely. He then added, "There are no signs indicating that between the General Secretary and Mr. Ligachev there are any differences...
Whatever differences Gorbachev had with his second-in-command, this was not the kind of brutal, all-out power struggle that had rocked the Kremlin under previous leaders. Those who know Ligachev agree that he is not hungrily scheming to replace Gorbachev...