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...virtually autonomous state, with independently functioning schools, finances, food distribution, prisons and security committees. He has managed to capture a sizable quantity of Communist supplies. As a result, all his guerrillas wear regular uniforms-Czechoslovak combat boots, fatigue pants and field jackets-and most are equipped with Soviet AK-47 rifles. Massoud has also set up an extremely effective intelligence organization with the help of a number of Afghan government officials. He regularly receives Soviet reports on rebel effectiveness, and on occasion gets maps showing Soviet battle plans. In February, when a Soviet-Afghan operation seemed on the point...
...territory still administered by South Africa in defiance of United Nations resolutions. According to the South Africans, the latest raid was a response to the gradual stockpiling of mostly Soviet arms and equipment to replace those lost in previous South African forays. Among the spoils: 90 Soviet-designed AK-47 assault rifles, several SA-7 missiles and hundreds of grenades and land mines. In addition, the South Africans captured a large cache of foodstuffs, including tins of corned beef from Zimbabwe, which they displayed as evidence that SWAPO is receiving aid from the government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. Said...
Across the Islamic world, from Tripoli to Tehran, the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was celebrated by bursts of bullets from every revolutionary's favorite automatic weapon. More than 10 million AK-47s, designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, are now in circulation throughout the world...
...Pakistan, where she urged more Western weapons sales to protect that country from a possible attack by Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan. Then she flew in one of Pakistan's Soviet Mi-8 helicopters to the Khyber Pass, where she talked to an Afghan border guard sporting, of course, an AK...
Small arms are a smaller problem. On the outskirts of Tabriz in northern Iran, as in hundreds of similar sites in the Third World, entrepreneurs have set up tent city arms bazaars offering everything from used Soviet and Chinese AK-47s (Soviet model: $150; Chinese copy: $75) to new U.S. Colt .45 automatic pistols ($300), all of which have found their way from armies to the underground...