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...night last week, Soviet television carried an astonishing news report from the capital of Afghanistan, a broadcast that was totally fitting for the dawn of the Orwellian new year. The film showed hundreds of Afghan demonstrators parading through the streets of Kabul on Christmas Day. The subject of their protest was, of course, not the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which had occurred exactly four years earlier. Instead, the Afghans were demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Grenada, a military action that had begun in October and effectively ended after eight weeks. In the Soviet news film, the marchers carried...
...since the invasion. There are, according to Western estimates, some 105,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan. Using tanks, helicopters and fighter-bombers, these forces pounded villages throughout the Shomali region. Their objective, presumably, was to obliterate guerrilla strength around the crucial 50-mile stretch of highway leading from Kabul toward the Soviet border, along which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They apparently hope that by demolishing villages they can devastate local agriculture and drive the residents from...
...normal life has now returned to Dasht-e-Rivat. Farmers can be seen working the fields with wooden plows; young men mix straw and mud to patch bomb holes. One sagging roof is propped up by an unexploded Soviet bomb. But in villages like Jakdalag, 30 miles east of Kabul, the relentless assault upon civilians has taken its toll on the guerrillas. The deserted settlement is pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with spent shells, some measuring 10 ft. in length. Since bombs first began tearing the community apart three years ago, all its farmers...
...activities endangered "the security of the population of Afghanistan." An hour later Danchev repeated the same bulletin. During the next hourly summary, he reported that the Afghan population was playing a greater role in defending the country "against bands infiltrated from the Soviet Union." He then intoned: "Reports in Kabul say that tribes living in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Paktia have joined in the struggle against the Soviet invaders...
Relations between Washington and Kabul became even frostier than usual last week after Afghanistan expelled U.S. Second Secretary Peter Graham, accusing the diplomat of selling pornographic literature in exchange for rugs. Calling the charge "ludicrous and wholly without foundation," the State Department retaliated by ordering Masjaedi Hewadmal, second secretary at the Afghan embassy in Washington, to leave...