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Sakin Begmatova, Foreign Minister of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic,* began by stating, "We wanted to make sure that no one strangles the Afghans' people's revolution." As the conversation went on, she recalled an incident-before the April 1978 revolution that brought the Marxists to power in Kabul-when the Soviets helped the Afghans fight a plague of locusts near the border. "That could have spread to us," noted Begmatova, "the locusts threatened crops on both sides of the border...
...human being, as a woman, as a mother and as a grandmother, that country [Afghanistan] is right on our border." Gairat Sapargaliyev, a law professor in Alma-Ata, said: "Afghanistan is, after all, a country on our own border!" Sapar Baizhanov, the editor in chief of Socialist Kazakhstan, put it this way: "We're not talking about Canada, after all, we're talking about a country on our own borders...
...being advanced by the Soviets to justify the invasion of Afghanistan could also be applied to the Iranian crisis hypothesized above. The Soviets repeatedly-and, quite possibly, with some sincerity-deny having a grand design for a grab at the oil and warm waters of the gulf. But a socialist Iran, asking for help from Moscow tomorrow, is even easier to imagine today than was an Islamic Republic of Iran two years...
...continue to operate in that philosophy under its new director, and, while recognizing that there are some regimes of such questionable legitimacy as to call for complete dissociation, be generally available to Third World countries, as responses to requests from the market-oriented regimes of the right as to socialist-oriented regimes of the left...
...World. He has taken largely unformed young Africans and Latin Americans from a peasant society and turned them into disciplined young technicians, thoroughly indoctrinated in the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Inevitably, the graduates of the Isle of Youth will have a profound impact on the spread and consolidation of socialist movements in troubled nations for many years to come...