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...tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled ditch and guarded by four Kalashnikov-toting Soviets...
...except for cruising armored cars with mounted loudspeakers blaring messages of friendship and reassurance. But the Russian presence was keenly felt if not always seen, and after dark it materialized in force. "Nobody has any illusions about the fact that Kabul today is run. by men with well-oiled Kalashnikov rifles and chauffered Volga sedans," TIME Correspondent David DeVoss reported from the Afghan capital. "Every night, just before 11 p.m. curfew, fleets of armored personnel carriers roll into Kabul from depots outside. Bristling with four machine guns each, they rumble alongside the frozen Kabul River past shuttered mosques and deserted...
...lies to the south of the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Dara has long been famous for its handmade rifles, mortars and land mines, and the insurgency in Afghanistan has turned the place into a boomtown. Reports DeVoss: "Mud-hut arms factories are busy 24 hours a day. A handcrafted Kalashnikov rifle sells for $1,700. For just under $1,000, Chicago-style tommy guns are a bargain. The preferred weapon is the Enfield; its bullets cost $1 apiece, as compared with $2.20 for a Kalashnikov round. But Dara's craftsmen will produce any weapon requested. A man polishing the barrel...
...longer apply. The Soviet-and Chinese-trained "freedom fighters " of the Patriotic Front have been forged into an efficient guerrilla force. Despite their edge in air power, some of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's white-led array units have been routed by rebel forces that are now equipped with Soviet Kalashnikov automatic rifles, portable antiaircraft missiles and other sophisticated arms. Employing classic hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics, the "boys," as they are affectionately called by the villagers who harbor them, have achieved control over much of the countryside. On occasion they have even left the bush to strike in Salisbury...
...unusual to see a Kurdish woman dressed in an elaborately embroidered homespun costume going about her chores with a child on one hip and a Kalashnikov rifle on the other. "We've got the will to fight," says one woman, patting her weapon affectionately, "and the means." The men are walking arsenals, with guns and cartridge belts at their hips and hand grenades dangling in leather pouches at their sides. Tucked away in the hills and valleys is heavier equipment, including machine guns, antitank weapons and artillery...