Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muhammadi, the President-designate, heads the Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami (Islamic Revolutionary Movement). He is a former Muslim educator and is known as a vociferous anti-Communist...
...Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 41, best-organized and most ruthless of the rebel leaders, heads a faction of the Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Despite his outspokenly anti-Western views, he is reportedly allotted 25% of the total U.S. weapon supply by the Pakistanis, more even than Rabbani. An engineer by training, Hekmatyar is a religious extremist who would keep Afghan women in purdah...
...country's eventual government would be Islamic in character, though not as radical as Iran's. According to this view, the new regime would not only be sufficiently decentralized to keep power outside Kabul largely in tribal hands but nonthreatening to the Soviets as well. Even the most anti- Soviet mujahedin, says a State Department official, realize that "the Afghans sleep next to the bear, and so they must act accordingly...
Just as observers readied to write off the latest wave of alumni and student activism, signs of anti-apartheid fervor on campus made their first big headlines of the year, with hints of more to follow...
While those numbers are not staggering when compared with the mass anti-apartheid protests of 1986, they are the largest of this academic year. And though they were unrelated to the Tutu announcement--the rally was planned several days before Tutu's candidacy was released publicly--growing student interest could mean that Tutu's election will resuscitate what has been termed the dying divestment movement...