Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a grim-faced President went on television Jan. 4 to denounce the Soviet army's blitz against Afghanistan, he used what for him was an unfamiliar prop. As Carter talked about "the strategic importance" of the attack, a color-coded map of the embattled region flashed on the screen. It illustrated his warning that the Soviet jackboot was now firmly planted on "a stepping stone to possible control over much of the world's oil supplies...
...soldiers had encircled the capital. The Russian presence did not sit at all well with most Afghans. Before the invasion, the poor, illiterate, devoutly Muslim people of Kabul's mud-flecked Old Quarter routinely invited foreigners to take tea in their shop stalls. Now they assumed that all unfamiliar foreigners were Russian and thus to be glared at coldly and jostled. The Soviets were understandably wary. At least 30 soldiers had been murdered in the streets since the coup. The most common form of attack was for enraged bands of teen-agers to catch a Soviet soldier alone...
...calls them. The New Left is not downgrading Marxism, he says, but instead reinvigorating it in new forms, a confusing idea in light of his early insistence that the New Left developed solely on its own pragmatic base and owed little or nothing to Marx. To the non-Marxist unfamiliar with the "humanist" ideas of Marxism, this "reinvigoration" of Marxist ideals does not make sense. To the Marxist, it may even appear to be an insult. Watered-down Marxism does not go over big in any strata of society; this apparent attempt by Lader to reconcile the far-flung members...