Word: pro-soviet
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...seemed to be the central target of the drive. For one thing, France has been the most independent, not to say reluctant, of the allies in lining up behind the U.S. on both Afghanistan and Iran. For another, Paris will be the site this week for a kind of pro-Soviet gala: a conference of European Communist parties designed to rally around Moscow's denunciation of NATO'S proposed new generation of nuclear missiles. Four major parties-the Yugoslav, Rumanian, Italian and Spanish -pointedly refused to attend, but Moscow appeared not to care. Its main purpose, according...
...been mostly stick and very little carrot. Gromyko's tough stance in his private talks was preceded by a harsh public speech in Paris by the Soviet Ambassador to France, Stepan Chervonenko. In justifying Moscow's action in Afghanistan, first of all, Chervonenko seemed to extend the common interpretation of the Brezhnev Doctrine-namely, the Soviets' right to intervene in Eastern Europe-to a pro-Soviet regime anywhere. A friendly country, Chervonenko argued, "has the full right to choose its allies and, if it becomes necessary, to be helped in repelling the threat of counterrevolution or foreign...
Objectivity in the Nepalese press is a matter of degree. Nearly every newspaper inevitably develops a political bent in response to the interest group that most heavily funds it. The Rising Nepal and Motherland are accepted as organs of the government, while Kathmandu abounds as well with papers professing pro-Soviet, -Indian and -Chinese ideologies...
...moribund, was disbanded.) Insofar as U.S. diplomats and intelligence experts focused on Afghanistan at all, they made two miscalculations. First, they believed that the Soviets' desire to preserve detente would restrain them in Afghanistan. Second, they had long since written off Babrak Karmal and his comrades in the pro-Soviet faction, whom the more independent Marxists ruling in Kabul had purged or driven into East European exile. Even in the early fall of last year, when an interagency intelligence report seriously raised the possibility that the Soviets might launch a full-scale "pacification" campaign in order to prevent Afghanistan...
Meanwhile, Afghanistan's new pro-Soviet government broadcast a letter to President Carter yesterday accusing the United States of "trying with all its forces to work against...