ABSTRACT
On December 27, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Thursday night, December 27, Afghanistan's president since September, Hafizullah Amin, was killed, and a new president, Soviet protege Babrak Karmal, was installed in his place. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan broke the spell of the seventies for Americans, and it shattered the illusion of detachment and isolation into which the country had retreated. The North-South establishment received another rude shock during late January and February 1980, this time from the South at the Third Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) held in New Delhi from January 21 through February 9, 1980. The most controversial proposal of the UNIDO Secretariat, "Industry 2000", called for UNIDO III to create a new multilateral financial mechanism to promote industrialization. The Diplomatic Conference to Revise the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was held in Geneva under the auspices of World Intellectual Property Organization.
