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...Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities, roads and airports, the rest of the country was largely in the hands of the guerrillas...
...that of Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal. Arriving in Islamabad, Saud emphasized that the conference must take a strong line on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which he said "threatened the independence of Muslim countries." He urged Islamic states to break diplomatic ties with Kabul, boycott the Moscow Olympics and provide assistance to the refugees. In the end, those points were included in the resolution, though only as recommendations. The final vote of the foreign ministers on the anti-Soviet measure was not known but, as one Pakistani diplomat told TIME, "There was no dissenting...
...seemingly endless flights of troop transports into Kabul airport, carrying army regulars to replace the mobilized reservists who took part in the original invasion, suggested that the Soviets are settling in for a long stay. Oil Tycoon Armand Hammer last week said that Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin had assured him that the troops would leave; but they surely will not go until the Kabul government of Babrak Karmal is secure and the insurgency is under control -and that could take months, if not years...
Sakharov thus becomes the first well-known human casualty of the cold war that has erupted between Moscow and Washington since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He had dared to speak out openly against his country's coup in Kabul. Always deeply fearful of thermonuclear war, the physicist had called upon the United Nations and the U.S.S.R. to arrange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In a statement to foreign journalists, Sakharov said: "The situation is so tragic, dramatic and dangerous that we must all concentrate on how to prevent a chain reaction that could have unpredictable...
...follow the story, the newsmen bivouacked at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, plying diplomats for information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel...