Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It would be difficult to reconcile this pledge with Moscow's ferrying of 6,000 Cuban troops to Angola in 1975 and its shipment of thousands of military "advisers" and enormous quantities of weapons to Ethiopia three years later. During the final months of the Shah's reign in Iran...
The Kremlin's leaders also probably concluded that they had little to lose by a blow to their relations with Washington. They have been saying for some time that detente has brought them few benefits. They have never obtained, for example, the kind of economic rewards that they had expected...