Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets escalated their intervention against Afghanistan's Muslim militants and recalcitrant tribesmen who had been waging a long simmering and spreading rebellion. The insurgents, in turn, received more covert assistance from China, Pakistan and other countries. But by now the U.S. was distracted by a new preoccupation, right next door in Iran. (One immediate consequence of the collapse of the Shah: CENTO, long moribund, was disbanded.) Insofar as U.S. diplomats and intelligence experts focused on Afghanistan at all, they made two miscalculations. First, they believed that the Soviets' desire to preserve detente would restrain them in Afghanistan. Second...
...courage." The best hit of his career, Tatum recalls, was a Hook to Riley Odoms of the Denver Broncos: "I heard Riley scream on impact and felt his body go limp." (He was not seriously injured.) That kind of fun soon had Tatum vying with Atkinson in a gruesome covert race for the most "knockouts," or players left unconscious (two points), and "limp-offs" (one point). Crows Tatum: "Guess...
...news executives plan to cover Afghanistan in much the same way as Iran, using phone calls, interviews with refugees and covert assistance from remaining journalists. Says Jerry Loughran, foreign editor of the Associated Press: "It is a very unsatisfactory way of doing things...