61.   The United States and many of its allies were boycotting the Moscow Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

62.   The United States opposed the Soviet invasion and provided weapons to the insurgents through Pakistan.

63.   Their leadership was trained in Afghanistan, fought during the Soviet invasion and have very close links to the Taliban.

64.   Their leadership was trained in Afghanistan, fought during the Soviet invasion and have very close links to the Taliban, who rule most of Afghanistan.

65.   WHEN the Afghan mujahideen were only a small band of irregulars bravely fending off a mighty Soviet invasion, they were hailed as heroes.

66.   For Grachev, a paratrooper who commanded Lebed during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it was a bitter moment.

67.   Abdullah thanked China for its commitment to help rebuild Afghanistan after more than two decades of war, including Soviet invasion and bloody civil wars.

68.   During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan he served alongside Grachev, both of them in the paratrooper divisions.

69.   The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan changed all that.

70.   It was set up to counter the threat of Soviet invasion.