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...estimated strength of about 92,000 men, have maintained control over population centers, but fighting was reported last week in the northeast and northwest sections. Soviet correspondents reported that saboteurs were blowing up bridges and communications lines in several regions, forcing the Afghan army to remain on constant alert. Pravda admitted that the Afghan "bandits," as it refers to the rebels, remained active, adding: "Storm clouds hang over the republic from the Pakistani and the Chinese sides of the border. It is from there that a flow of weapons and propaganda [as well as] armed saboteurs and bandits are sent...
...time since the height of the cold war has the cult of brute force been professed so openly." An editorial in the New York Times?'The Washington Post? In fact, the statement appeared last week in Pravda, which went on to denounce America's "unprecedented militarism" and "claims to worldwide supremacy." Adopting the time-proven tactic that the best defense is a strong offense, the Soviet press, radio and television conducted a nonstop rhetorical counterattack against mounting criticism in the U.S., Western Europe and the Muslim world of the U.S.S.R.'s invasion and conquest of Afghanistan...
...main target of the Soviet propaganda campaign was "J. Carter" who, Pravda said, has stirred up "a militaristic chauvinistic psychosis in the U.S.," with the assistance of his principal henchman, Zbigniew Brzezinski. According to Moscow's Literary Gazette, the President's National Security Adviser is a "most dejected conservative" whose "blind hatred for Russia is so great that its very existence offends him." These two villains were depicted as having long planned a return to the cold war and a policy of "brinksmanship." The Soviet press ticked off steps in the alleged Carter-Brzezinski plot: rejection of SALT...
Moscow responded with even more vitriol. In a statement to Pravda, Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev accused Washington of launching "a shameless anti-Soviet campaign," being "outright hypocritical" and telling "mountains of lies" about the Soviet action in Afghanistan. Said the Kremlin's aging chief: "The impression is increasingly forming in the world of the U.S. as an absolutely unreliable partner in interstate ties, as a state whose leadership, prompted by some whim, caprice or emotional outbursts ... is capable at any moment of violating its international obligations...
...Pravda elaborated on Brezhnev's theme: "American policy is acquiring a trend that is ever more hostile to the interests of peace, detente and equitable cooperation among states. At present, this policy of interference in domestic affairs and encroachment on people's rights is shown in relation to Iran, but tomorrow in relation to other sovereign states." Alexander Bovin, a senior writer for Izvestia, warned, "It is time for the U.S. to learn to behave with greater modesty. That will be better for both America itself and the whole world." The man in the Moscow street often echoed...