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...Backfire bombers. Why the sudden buildup? In Moscow First Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh announced that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan "is being suspended" because of new attacks by mujahedin rebels. Blaming the U.S. and Pakistan for continuing to give arms to the guerrillas, he hinted that the original pullout deadline...
UNITED NATIONS--Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said yesterday that the pullout of more than 100,000 Red Army troops from Afghanistan has been suspended because of alleged violations of a U.N.-negotiated accord...
Shevardnadze later told reporters the Soviets have suspended their pullout...
...near tragedy exposed some operational flaws in a Soviet space program that, in manned flight at least, has far outstripped its U.S. counterpart. American experts said the Kremlin had precipitately scheduled the mission as a gesture of Soviet-Afghan friendship before Soviet troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan early next year. The hurried launch gave the three- man crew only six months to prepare as a team for a voyage that normally requires a full year of intensive training. Soviet space officials later conceded that the cosmonauts may have "lost vigilance" during the flight...
...South African pullout from Angola by Sept. 1, by which time Cuba and Angola will present a timetable for the withdrawal of Cuban troops...