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Afghanistan. Since September the pro-Soviet regime of President Noor Mohammed Taraki has been caught up in a bitter civil war; Moscow has charged?and Washington has angrily denied???that the U.S. instigated the rebellion. Some of the insurgents are inspired by tribal animosities, others by political opposition to the government's leftist ways. According to one U.S. expert in the area, "Islam has proved to be the major unifying theme for the rebels." Many of them have moved to armed camps in Pakistan. Taraki has tried to highlight his own credentials as a good Muslim; recently the government publicized...
...freedom, which the new land heralded, they found denied???to them and to their children. Still they laughed, and wept, and sang, while through the South the cotton fields bloomed white beneath their patient labor. And then, amid the clamor of the guns, a voice proclaiming Freedom, and the chains fell off and a light flooded over them?free?free...
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