Word: afghanistan
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...principal example. The best examples of unrestrained Soviet conduct, in which they create the opportunity rather than simply reaping the harvest of our failure, are the dispatch of Cuban proxy forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the two invasions of Zaire from Angola, the Communist coups in South Yemen and Afghanistan, and the Soviet friendship treaty with Viet Nam just prior to Viet Nam's occupation of Cambodia. Also, there's the establishment of Soviet bases in Viet Nam and military depots in Ethiopia and Libya, the dispatch of air forces to Cuba to fly air defense missions...
...What is the Soviet responsibility for the coup in Afghanistan...
...last winter when the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by anti-Shah Iranians and the American Ambassador in Afghanistan was killed by terrorists, Defense Secretary Harold Brown was touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named...
...anyone can remember, villagers called it Tillya Tepe-the Golden Mound. Even so, no one dreamed of the precious relics that might be unearthed in the strange, 12-ft.-high rise of ground located in a cotton field three miles north of the town of Shibarghan in northern Afghanistan. In 1977 a Soviet-Afghan archaeological team began serious excavations. By last fall they had uncovered the mud-brick columns and cross-shaped altar of an ancient temple dating back to at least 1000 B.C. Then they struck pay dirt-a glittering trove of gold that some Soviets said rivaled Tutankhamun...
...gold, it is the mud-and-brick temple that may prove to be the real scientific treasure, providing insights into Afghanistan's even remoter past. It contains two halls whose flat roofs were supported by 15 square columns; the altar in the larger room shows traces of ash. No one knows who the builders were, what they were burning or where they ultimately went. (One theory: they may have been Aryans, who spoke an Indo-European language and who later decamped to India.) Says Sarianidi: "The temple may yet tell us something about those people, who otherwise have left...