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...second phase of the onslaught, the invasion by Soviet ground forces, took place between Dec. 29 and 31. One Soviet motorized rifle division, with at least 12,000 men, rolled down the western route from Kushka, in the Soviet Union, to Kandahar. Another streamed in from the Soviet city of Termez over the road that passes through the Salang Pass to Bagram and Kabul. At the time the Soviets built this second route about 15 years ago, some Afghans had noted that the highway seemed strong and wide enough to accommodate tanks and troop carriers...
...areas. Afghan rebels claimed to have ambushed and routed a Soviet column in Bamian province northwest of Kabul. Fighting was said to be taking place in Logar province south of the capital, in Badakhshan and Takhar along the northeast frontier with the Soviet Union, in the southern city of Kandahar and in the desert wastes west of Herat and Farah. Concluded a Western observer: "The Soviet plan seems to be to secure the capital and seal the borders. If escape routes to Iran and Pakistan are cut, I am sure they are confident that eventually they will prevail over...
Sources also said that an Afghan army brigade fought with Soviet troops near Kandahar, in southwestern Afghanistan. Both sides reportedly suffered heavy casualties...
Southward near Kandahar, young teachers arrived in one district to preach Marxism. Again some were killed, and again the army went in, this time driving villagers into the frigid mountains. Neighboring Baluchi tribesmen, like the Pathans, have fled across the Pakistani border and are allied with separatist movements there. Some Western analysts have suggested that the Soviets may now want to take advantage of these movements to spearhead trouble in Pakistan and also in Iran, where some Baluchis have settled. For the moment, however, the Taraki regime's ineptitude in dealing with the tribesmen seems to have checked...
...Bryn [Evensen] was very consistent--he wasn't right at the top, but he didn't crash much," Carter said. Evensen beat World Cup skier Roland Thoeni of Italy in the Kandahar of the Andes downhill race. Thoeni's cousin, Gustavo Thoeni, was the World Cup ski champion last year...