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...Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped into rebel-held territory. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott received a rare visa from the Afghan government and last week sent this report from Kabul...
During daylight, Kabul seems almost like a city at peace. Almost, but not quite. There are reminders, some constant and subtle, others sudden and dramatic, that this is a land at war with itself and with its giant neighbor to the north, and that the war is closing in on the capital...
...main mosque on the bank of the Kabul River, the faithful gather for midday prayers. Most are old men, many of them crippled. In the midst of their worship, the droning incantations from the loudspeakers on the minarets are momentarily drowned out by the roar of two camouflaged MiG-21s streaking toward targets upcountry. Outside, a truck goes by with two Soviet soldiers in the back. They wear wide-brimmed khaki ranger hats and olive-drab bulletproof vests, and they hold their Kalashnikov assault rifles at the ready, barrels upright, on their knees...
Commercial air traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...
...strength of Soviet guns. Aside from a few men at the top, in fact, the only issue that seems to unite the Afghan people is their determination to send the Soviets home. The Soviets surely realize the depth of popular sentiment against them. As one Russian staying in the Kabul Hotel admitted: "We have got into a bad thing...