Word: babrak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultrasecret "Directorate S, "which controls "illegals," Soviet-born agents abroad. In an exclusive interview in London last week with TIME's Frank Melville, Kuzichkin said: 1) Brezhnev himself overruled repeated advice from Yuri Andropov's KGB not to turn Afghanistan into a Soviet satellite, 2) Afghan President Babrak Karmal is a KGB agent of long standing, 3) Karmal's predecessor was murdered in his palace by a specially trained, KGB-led Soviet assault group. Kuzichkin's account...
When TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott arrived at the Presidential Palace in Kabul last week, he found President Babrak Karmal as affable in manner as he was doctrinaire in his pronouncements. At the beginning and the end of a 90-minute interview, the first Kar mal has had with an American journalist, the President and party leader kissed Talbott on both cheeks in the traditional Afghan greeting, urging him to "come back some time and hunt Marco Polo sheep in our beautiful mountains." Karmal spoke mostly in English, which he said he learned in King Zahir's prisons during...
...After 16 months in Afghanistan, in fact, the 85,000 Soviet occupation troops still control only the capital of Kabul. Last week Indian Journalist Rajendra Sareen, editor of New Delhi's POT Analysis and News Service, returned from an eleven-day visit to Afghanistan, where he interviewed President Babrak Karmal, head of the Soviet-installed regime in Kabul. He gave TIME this report...
...Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in seeking a settlement. It stopped short of condemning the 1979 Soviet invasion, but called for the withdrawal of the 80,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq reported "intimations of flexibility" from both the Soviets and their puppet in Kabul, Babrak Karmal. But the militant Afghan rebels, in spite of their close relations with the Saudis, adamantly refused to sit down with representatives of Karmal's government...
...stepped off the Aeroflot jetliner onto the tarmac of Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Afghanistan's President Babrak Karmal was given effusive greetings by a phalanx of Soviet officials led by Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The Afghan leader was on his first venture outside the Soviet-occupied country since he was installed as Moscow's puppet last December. The sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused...