Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stormy two-week session was marred by infighting and last-minute reversals. But last week outside Islamabad, a council of the seven Pakistan- based mujahedin factions at last agreed on a formula for sharing power if they overthrow the Soviet-backed government of President Najibullah in Afghanistan...
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, leader of the fundamentalist Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, was named the potential Prime Minister, while Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, leader of the moderate Afghan National Liberation Front, would be President. Five other rebel leaders also received Cabinet assignments...
...agreement reached by the guerrillas impressed U.S. and Pakistani observers, but the unity may prove fleeting. A rival group of mujahedin based in Iran opposed the council's choices. Mojaddedi nonetheless called on other countries to recognize the interim rebel government, which he predicted would be functioning inside Afghanistan within a month, "God willing...
...Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, 48, the least-known but perhaps most fanatical of the fundamentalists, runs the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan. A member of Islam's Wahhabi sect, which is prevalent in Saudi Arabia, he , operates primarily with Saudi funds...
...thousands expected to arrive in the U.S. in 1989. As a result of Moscow's liberalized emigration policies, some 50,000 Soviet citizens, primarily Jews and Armenians, will be allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. this year; most will be headed for the U.S. Several thousand of the 5 million Afghanistan refugees camped in Pakistan will also emigrate...