Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet relations. That trend has been greatly worsened by Carter's sudden normalization of relations with Moscow's rivals in Peking. It took another downturn last week when Soviet advisers were reported to have played a role in the Shootout that killed the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan. The State Department sent a sharp protest to the Soviets. Despite these strains, Carter has assigned top priority to concluding the long delayed SALT II and meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...
...that was the case, the maneuver failed. In Washington, the Administration, already preoccupied with the murder of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Afghanistan (see following story), thought for a while that it had a double crisis on its hands. Only when he learned at dawn Wednesday that the leftist invaders had been expelled from the embassy and that Khomeini loyalists were shielding the American compound did Carter decide to proceed with his state visit to Mexico...
Protests over a perverse tragedy in Afghanistan...
Since taking over as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan last July, Adolph Dubs, 58, an affable 29-year career diplomat known to all as "Spike," had traveled a similar route to his office every day, without a security escort and without incident. There was a winding drive from his residence, skirting the old bazaar district, then a fast stretch to his embassy on the edge of Kabul. Last week Dubs' routine led to his abduction and death−and an international uproar that put still more stress on U.S.-Soviet relations...
...midtown intersection last Wednesday morning, on schedule at 8:45 a.m., four armed attackers, one of whom was dressed as a Kabul traffic policeman, stopped his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile at gunpoint and jumped into the car. The abductors, believed to be right-wing Shi'ite Muslims opposed to Afghanistan's pro-Soviet regime, ordered their captive to drive to the Kabul Hotel, located near the Defense Ministry...