Word: babrak
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Whatever personal words Chernenko had were apparently reserved for private sessions, such as the meeting he held with Warsaw Pact leaders. He also conferred with Castro, Afghanistan Party Leader Babrak Karmal and Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Chernenko pointedly snubbed Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, whose leadership has been challenged by pro-Syrian rebels and who had to watch the funeral from a section reserved for the ambassadors of Western and neutral countries. China's Vice Premier Wan Li, the highest-ranking Chinese leader to set foot in Moscow in more than two decades, was received by Soviet...
...place, control some 80% of the Texas-size country. Despite factional differences and a pressing shortage of modern equipment, the rebels fight on with unflagging ferocity, but they are far from defeating the combined force of the Soviet occupation and the army of the Afghan government led by President Babrak Karmal. So the fighting continues, sporadically and inconclusively, while the cost of maintaining the Soviet presence, estimated at $8 million a day, is financed from Afghan exports to the Soviet Union...
...northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, which serves as headquarters for the Afghan rebels, was rife with rumors last week that some kind of deal was about to be worked out between the Soviet-installed regime of Afghan President Babrak Karmal and the government of Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Diplomats from the two countries, have been meeting in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations in an attempt to negotiate an agreement, but the rebels are opposed to the talks on the grounds that they are not represented...
...Soviets, however, were not anxious to cause any trouble on the third anniversary of that cold day in late December 1979 when Soviet paratroopers landed at Kabul airport and began a prolonged, costly and so far unsuccessful campaign to control Afghanistan. Babrak Karmal, 53, the Kremlin's hand-picked leader, remains in power, but the Soviet Union's 105,000 troops have failed in rooting out the mujahedin, the ragtag but stubborn guerrillas who control most of the countryside. Neither side has gained or lost much ground over the past three years, and all signs point...
...revelations that President Babrak Karmal was on the KGB payroll for years was common knowledge in Kabul. That Mohammed Daoud conducted widespread slaughter, that the Afghans were slaughtering one another and that the 1978 coup overthrowing Daoud was arranged hastily "in desperation" from jail cells are false and serve a propaganda line that Moscow has long promoted...