Word: elia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bork and D. Elia who published their story in last Friday's issue of the Yale Free Press, made no prior arrangements for contacting the insurgents, but instead said they asked a taxi driver in Peshawar to take them to the headquarters of the guerrillas...
State Department officials who refused to be identified said they might be contacting Bork and D'Elia about their experiences...
Bork and D'Elia arrived in the border city of Peshawar. Pakistan February 28, where they made contact with members of the "Moderate Alliance," a major guerilla coalition...
...journey became more harrowing as Bork and D'Elia passed into Afghanistan Accompanied by ten muhajedeen fighters, a guide, and an interpreter, they went thirty miles into the Afghan province of Paktia, crossing snow-covered mountains laced with Soviet air-dropped mines, and passing bombed-out villages...
Bork and D'Elia spent a day hiding from prowling Soviet helicopter gunships, and a night observing the battle from the top of a mud-walled house. But as Soviet forces came nearer they decided to return to Pakistan having spent five days in Afghanistan. After resting in Peshawar for three' days, they returned to the United States...