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...artery for the 115,000 Soviet troops battling mujahedin resistance fighters in Afghanistan. Three and a half years ago, hundreds of Soviet soldiers were said to have perished inside the highway's 1.7-mile-long tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains, following a collision of vehicles in a military convoy. Last week Western diplomatic sources reported that the same area was the scene of a bloody new calamity for Soviet and Afghanistan government forces...
...took place at Ollang, a hamlet three miles south of the tunnel and 34 miles north of Kabul, the capital, as Soviet and Afghan troops were unloading from a convoy to mount an antiguerrilla operation. According to the reports, a time bomb apparently placed in one of the vehicles by a mujahedin sympathizer exploded, starting a fire that engulfed several tanker trucks. In the ensuing confusion, resistance fighters attacked and reportedly killed some 400 Soviet and Afghan soldiers and destroyed 80 vehicles...
...much broader scope than they had previously thought. Some Labor ministers in the government, including Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, are in fact in favor of completing the pullout earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column and, as the Israelis passed, exploded. An open "safari" truck was reduced to a pile of smoldering metal, with twelve...
...after the assault on its convoy, the Israeli army attacked the Shi'ite town of Zrariyah (pop. 9,000) with tanks and armored personnel carriers. Several hundred Israeli troops met some resistance from Lebanese soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen, but the column continued on into Zrariyah. Automobiles were machine-gunned, and the armored vehicles rolled over several cars, crushing them like discarded tin cans. In one destroyed vehicle there was at least one passenger, but he appeared to have been killed earlier by gunfire...
...resistance movement, it brought little respite for the Israelis. The next day, two Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush. The same day, a car exploded on a road south of Tyre, killing five Lebanese civilians; the vehicle had apparently been heading for an Israeli outpost or convoy, but blew up prematurely. In Zrariyah, the governor of southern Lebanon, Halim Fayad, issued a warning: "New suicide attacks will be launched. We are ready to avenge this massacre...