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...stubborn conflict in Afghanistan, where determined guerrillas continue to resist a 100,000-strong Soviet occupation force. Last month, in the largest operation since their December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviets tried to root out the well-disciplined mujahedin of the lush Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. TIME's William Dowell spent 22 days, disguised in a native tunic and baggy pantaloons, trekking over 16,000-ft. passes with a guerrilla caravan in order to witness the combat. Dowell's report...
...main force behind the Panjshiri guerrillas is former Engineering Student Ahmed Shah, 28, who operates under the name Massoud. The scion of one of Kabul's wealthiest families, Massoud first ran into trouble with authorities for being involved with Islamic groups. He has turned the valley into a virtually autonomous state, with independently functioning schools, finances, food distribution, prisons and security committees. He has managed to capture a sizable quantity of Communist supplies. As a result, all his guerrillas wear regular uniforms-Czechoslovak combat boots, fatigue pants and field jackets-and most are equipped with Soviet AK-47 rifles...
...since last June in the oppressive intervention department. Washington continued its frantic efforts to prop up an illusory domino in El Salvador, ignoring past lessons that war torn nations need peace and non-interference, not American guns. Moscow still has 100,000 heavily armed campers bunking down in Kabul...
...trip might dispell any romantic notions Qul has of Alaska. It reached 30-below-zero in Fairbanks last Friday. Actually, Jones says, Qul got the idea of moving to Alaska from a picture book he saw in the Kabul, on one of his annual visits to trade, get supplies, and tell the new government things were fine in the Wakhen. (The last task was crucial, to keep the government from bothering them...
Jimmy Carter revived draft registration to express American concern over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Two years later, it's clear how much the step improved life in Kabul. Candidate Ronald Reagan predicted as much, calling the sign-up a meaningless gesture and taking the debate one step further: "Perhaps the most fundamental objection to draft registration is moral." Last week, President Ronald Reagan regretted to inform us that military realities had forced him to break his promise on abolishing registration. He had new information from his blue-ribbon manpower task force: registration would save six weeks in a potential...