Word: kandahar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troop and supply carriers-lift off from the airport and roar across the city on flight paths calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces-sky caravans in what was once a land of camel caravans -fly farther, on missions and reinforcement flights to the eastern provinces of Paktia and Kunar, where a spring offensive against the mujahidin...
...employers why they want to leave. Feigned illness of a spouse requiring treatment abroad (particularly in Pakistan or India) is one ploy. Others who have dependents without passports have escaped in more daring ways. Taxis with cramped, hidden compartments built under back seats have smuggled some from Jalalabad or Kandahar to the Pakistani frontier...
...have won a greats victory. We have shown the Russians what the Afghan people think of them." So said a belligerent Kabul merchant, exulting over the mass anti-Soviet protests that rocked the Afghan capital last week, The unrest was reported to have spread to six provinces, from Kandahar in the south to Baghlan in the north, and the Soviets were facing the most serious challenge to their two-month-old occupation of Afghanistan, which has brought them worldwide condemnation...
...highways, but still faced considerable resistance in rural areas; perhaps 80% of the barren countryside remained in rebel hands. After a four-day lull, attacks by Muslim insurgents flared again in the northeast provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar. Civil unrest, according to U.S. intelligence reports, erupted repeatedly inside Kandahar, an ancient trading center on the edge of the Desert of Death. Soviet forces also found themselves in confrontation with mutinous units of the crumbling Afghan army; on at least one occasion, at the southern town...
...Kabul, and two mobile units, one stationed due east at Jalalabad and one due west at Shindand. One of the four armored divisions, equipped with heavy T-72 tanks and BMP and BMD armored personnel carriers, was also dug in near Kabul; the three others were fanned out at Kandahar in the south, Herat in the northwest and Kunduz in the northeast. American intelligence experts were puzzled by one facet of the Soviet deployment: each division had a full complement of chemical-biological-radiological warfare decontamination units. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the decontamination units were regularly...