Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Today the target of the Afghans' anger is the Soviet force of 50,000 troops who have invaded and seized control of their land. "Shoravi Padar Lanath!"cried beggars and shopkeepers alike in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan's shabby, snow-covered capital. The curse ("Goddamn the Russians!") replaced morning pleasantries in the city's ancient bazaar. "Afghanistan is no more," lamented a bootblack in the shopping district of Share Nau. "We have lost everything...
...official named Vishniak, who "hated the official line and showed sympathy to me personally," had warned him that Stalin wanted to finish him off "accidentally." The accident actually took place on the anniversary of the October revolution in 1927 when shots aimed at Trotsky's car missed their target and killed a militiaman...
...part, by a disruption of the oil trade. Beyond that looms the danger of U.S.-Soviet confrontation. Washington policymakers, uncertain about the leftist impulses of Iran's ubiquitous "students" ?and perhaps some members of Iran's ruling Revolutionary Council?fear that the country may become a new target of opportunity for Soviet adventurism. The Kremlin leaders in turn must contend with the danger that the U.S.S.R.'s 50 million Muslims could be aroused by Khomeini's incendiary Islamic nationalism. Yet if the Soviets chose to take advantage of the turmoil in Iran as they have intervened in neighboring Afghanistan...
...blinder-than-justice approach to their work also raises serious questions about the contents of the book. Once Woodward and Armstrong picked their target, how did they decide what to include in the book? Their unwillingness to separate the important from the titillating shows the trouble blind writing can cause. If Woodward and Armstrong spent two years studying this court, how could they not emerge with a few ideas on how it could be improved? But if they truly had no aim, then it is little wonder they ended up with 460-odd pages of whipped cream...