Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such stubborn determination leaves Moscow faced with the prospect of an open-ended drain on its resources and ongoing embarrassment in its foreign policy. It also presents the U.S. with a dilemma. Should the U.S., in exchange for a Soviet pullout, press for a diplomatic settlement that might involve the formal recognition of Karmal's puppet regime and an end to outside support for the mujahedin? Or should Washington keep the covert military heat on and insist on unconditional withdrawal...
...internal affairs. This kind of explicit, narrowly defined "linkage" tends always to stiffen Soviet backs. Linkage must be an underlying factor in the calculations on both sides rather than a stark equation by itself, such as the formula that freer emigration would equal freer trade, or that a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan would equal ratification of SALT...
...Government has spent roughly $3.2 billion in transporting and resettling 185,000 boat people, in addition to 142,000 other Indochinese refugees and the 123,000 Vietnamese who were airlifted to the U.S. at the time of the American pullout from Viet Nam in 1975. That aid has been supplemented by scores of private voluntary agencies, such as the United States Catholic Conference, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the International Rescue Committee, which have taken charge of the actual resettlement of the refugees...
...Would you, for instance, make a pullout from Afghanistan one price of serious arms control negotiations...
Almost everywhere, Labbé found evidence of the American pullout in 1975: a huge arsenal of U.S. warplanes, helicopters, tanks, guns and other matériel captured from the disintegrating South Vietnamese army and left behind by U.S. forces. Hanoi's high command has ingeniously combined its multinational matériel. Pilots trained in Moscow fly U.S. A-37 ground-attack jets and F-5 fighter-bombers. Airborne troops drop from Soviet transport planes wearing American parachutes. Chinese-made ships, donated by Peking during the Viet Nam War, have been equipped with new Soviet guns for patrol duty near...