31.   The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in February convinced many lawmakers that the plan could help contain communism.

32.   The U.S. role in resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is cited as an example.

33.   Threatening the use of nuclear weapons, once the backbone of NATO plans to stop a Soviet invasion, makes no sense in a place like Kosovo.

34.   Washington saw the country as some kind of barrier-post against China, which it never was, and against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

35.   When Soviet invasion and a civil war sent Afghans into flight for their lives, Pakistan took in millions of them.

36.   When it came time to organize a resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States again worked closely together.

37.   After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, relations between Washington and Islamabad became even closer.

38.   Azzam, a Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, got his start raising money for Muslims fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

39.   Chechnya has become the worst quagmire for Russian troops since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

40.   Chechnya is becoming the worst quagmire for Russian troops since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.