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Kabul Airport is a massive Soviet military base. Tanks guard key city intersections. Cannons are trained on the main bazaar. Armored personnel carriers rumble through the streets. Heavily armed soldiers guard all public buildings. A curfew begins at 10 p.m., but the streets are empty between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. It is forbidden for more than four people to assemble without permission in a public place...
Kabul is waiting for something to happen-riots, guerrilla action, a tightening of curfew, the replacement of Moscow's puppet party boss Babrak Karmal, army or police mutiny, perhaps an even more overt Soviet takeover. However ill founded, however paranoid, the constant rumors have a reality of their own in shaping the war psychosis of the occupied city. The men seen in the streets with guns, the façade of power, are Afghans. The real occupiers, the Soviets, are invisible, except for their helicopters, the jet contrails, the daily barrage of Pravda-phrased media propaganda, the Cyrillic script...
...dusk, as the resident flying mammals that give Kampala's Bat Valley Bar and Restaurant its name soar screeching into the sky, customers down their last sip of $20-a-bottle beer and head for the safety of home. Long before the 10 p.m. curfew, when the crackle of machine guns begins to reverberate across the seven hills of Uganda's capital, no sane person is on the streets. Not even hospitalized patients are safe from attack. Last week unidentified gunmen barged into a ward of Kampala's Mulago Hospital and seriously wounded Businessman Gaster Nsubuga...
Early this year, a Jewish seminary student was murdered in Hebron's casbah, presumably by Arab assailants. Following the murder, the Israeli army clamped a ten-day curfew on the center of Hebron. But it was a discriminatory curfew. While Arab residents were confined to their homes, Jewish settlers, armed with rifles and pistols, strolled through the streets...
...buildings during the day. According to the martial-law decree, all residents of Kabul were ordered to surrender firearms to the police within 24 hours; violators would be taken before "military-revolutionary" courts. A TASS dispatch from Kabul explained that the Interior Ministry had ordered the martial law and curfew in response to "plunder and arson" by Muslim insurgents and what it called "foreign agents, mercenaries and stooges...