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Word: ghaffer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...negotiated change of government. Two weeks ago Sayed Mohammed Gulabzoi, the once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Backing Away From a Client | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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