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...mujahedin spokesman in Pakistan claimed that the attackers blew up ammunition dumps, aviation-fuel tanks, barracks where Soviet flight crews and traffic controllers slept, and water tanks, crucial in drought-stricken Kabul. One Western military analyst observed that the raid showed both that "the iron discipline of the mujahedin has not been broken" and that the CIA weapons pipeline to the rebels is improving. MALAYSIA Where Dadah Means Death...
...saga of Yurchenko was played out against a backdrop of defection politics that further taxed the Administration. In Afghanistan a Soviet soldier who had sought refuge at the U.S. embassy in Kabul finally left in the company of the Soviet Ambassador last week, but only after the embassy had been ringed by hundreds of Soviet and Afghan troops for five days and its electricity and phone lines cut off. In New Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both...
...sometimes giggly, she stood out among the tired, cynical hacks and aid workers that usually populate war zones, so much so that battle-weary journalists nicknamed her "Bubbles" in the early days, uncertain what to make of this gregarious life force that had dropped in our midst. In Kabul and Baghdad during the past few years, Marla was the life of the party. She would rent a house for a day, arrange food and drink and then fire off e-mails to friends and colleagues inviting us to a celebration that sometimes ended with a display of her enviable salsa...
...Francisco-based human rights group Global Exchange. She began lobbying for the victims of U.S. bombing who she said deserved compensation. Fiercely anti-war, she was savvy enough to understand that she probably couldn't stop conflicts but that she could help their victims. On one memorable occasion in Kabul, in early 2002, she organized a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy, arriving with a father and his daughter, the only survivors of a recent U.S. bombing raid that had left 18 family members dead...
...pulled it off and the story ran in the following day's papers. "I'd rarely met someone who could combine such strident activism with canny politics-all at the age of 24, when I first met her," says TIME's Vivienne Walt, who got to know Ruzicka in Kabul...