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...leader's voice crackled over the Soviet army's secret radio network, accurately describing the weather, the Soviet positions and their casualties that day. Meanwhile, in whatever direction Soviet tanks turned, they ran across rebel-laid land mines. According to Western diplomats in the Afghan capital of Kabul, casualties were so high that gravediggers at the local cemetery worked overtime to bury up to 40 soldiers...
...instituted classes in the use of rocket launchers and heavy artillery, and even set up schools and bus services throughout the valley. His Mujahedin have also hounded their Soviet invaders. Recently they captured and reportedly killed 23 Soviet agents disguised as Mujahedin. By persistently ambushing military convoys traveling between Kabul and the Soviet border, they have caused a severe fuel problem in the capital, a mere 40 miles to the south. Only two weeks ago they compounded that shortage by blowing up four strategically vital bridges. Small wonder, then, that the Soviets have shattered their 13-month truce with Massoud...
Government-run Radio Kabul was soon trumpeting victory, and the official Soviet news agency TASS implied that Massoud's men had been routed and their leader captured or killed. Noted one Western diplomat in Moscow: "They would hardly claim anything that specific unless it were at least partly true." Others were not convinced. Afghan resistance spokesmen in Paris acknowledged that two attempts had been made upon the Lion's life, including one by an undercover agent who took aim from only 30 feet away. But they also insisted that rumors of Massoud's downfall were as overblown...
...accompany an elaborate royal wedding procession across India, he falls desperately in love with Princess Anjuli (Amy Irving), a half-caste whom he first adored as a child. Before they can ride off into the crimson sunset, numerous complications arise, including a valiant defense of the British embassy in Kabul and the rescue of Anjuli from a cruel marriage and the threat of suttee. So much for narrative...
...highway from Peshawar to Karachi. An addict there can order a fix almost as easily as a meal in a restaurant. The nation's heroin trade is further bolstered by Afghan refugees, who peddle the drug to help pay for the rebellion against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. Western intelligence sources say that the Kabul regime, with Soviet connivance, is also injecting Pakistan with heroin in a deliberate attempt to destabilize Pakistani society. Officials in Karachi have found no way to stop this traffic. A government report calls vast areas of the Afghan frontier virtually "unpoliceable...