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...part, President Carter declared that the U.S. would be willing to help guarantee Afghanistan's neutrality, along with other nations including the Soviet Union, if the troop withdrawal came first. The gesture came in a cable to President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia; despite his grave illness, Tito had written both Carter and Brezhnev and implored them to preserve detente. The prevailing view in the Carter Administration, however, was that the Kremlin's campaign was a "propaganda exercise" aimed at dividing Western ranks and blunting Washington's anti-Soviet retaliation. Other countries, meanwhile, were getting into...
...detente that has followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. State Department officials contend that there was "nothing new" in Brezhnev's state ments. In Paris, however, Hammer told TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton that the a the Soviets are now ready to negotiate with the U.S. on a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan...
...floundering Kabul government of Party Boss Babrak Karmal was ordered to clamp martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the capital. Soviet troop reinforcements were rushed into the city to put down growing disturbances. Nonetheless, firefights that caused at least 50 casualties broke out in several parts of the city. As rebel leaders threatened to mount a full-scale attack on Kabul in March, intelligence officials in Washington could scarcely contain their glee at the Soviets' discomfiture. Said one defense analyst: "They've really got their feet in the quagmire...
...trade and agriculture, Assad is restrained by his adamant opposition to the Camp David accords and by his dependence on Soviet military supplies. For a variety of reasons, Syria has rarely been so isolated within the Arab world as it is today. Thus another reason for Assad's troop decision was to remind other Arabs and the world at large that Damascus still holds the match to Lebanon, potentially the most dangerous fuse in the Middle East...
Richard Kay, "whereas females had comparatively small canines." Why? Apparently the males developed their large fangs so they could battle one another for mates, establish a social pecking order and, when threatened by an outside aggressor, defend their troop-a characteristic of many modern monkeys and apes...