Word: gulabzoi
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Leshchinsky's commentary seemed to reflect deepening Soviet pessimism about Najibullah's survival amid the outcome of the nine-year struggle against mujahedin insurgents. In Kabul the Kremlin appeared to be laying the groundwork for a 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...
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