Word: karmal
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...extending "our sympathies" to liberation movements in the Third World, he also served notice that the Soviet Union would continue to provide more than just sympathy to the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, the Marxist rulers of Ethiopia, the Viet Nam-backed puppet government of Kampuchea and the Babrak Karmal regime of Afghanistan. In effect, Gorbachev was offering his own rejoinder to the Reagan doctrine of American support for anti-Communist guerrilla movements...
...Afghan children between the ages of seven and nine were herded aboard a Soviet airliner. Their destination: the Soviet Union, where for the next 15 to 20 years they will be put through a course of political indoctrination. According to Radio Kabul, the official voice of Afghan President Babrak Karmal's Soviet-backed regime, the children will be taught "Marxist-Leninist thinking, and an appreciation of the greatness of the Soviet state and the evils of imperialism...
...horses. More practically, the Muslim system of zakat (tithing) binds the community together by ensuring that a part of its wealth goes to its poor. Villages have therefore been the primary source of food, support and intelligence for the mujahedin guerrillas who oppose the Soviet-backed regime of Babrak Karmal. That is why the Soviets have used their bombs and tanks to reduce scores of communities to rubble. Of Afghanistan's 16 million people, more than half have been forced from their homes: up to 5 million have become internal refugees, many of them crowded into Kabul, the capital...
Whatever personal words Chernenko had were apparently reserved for private sessions, such as the meeting he held with Warsaw Pact leaders. He also conferred with Castro, Afghanistan Party Leader Babrak Karmal and Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Chernenko pointedly snubbed Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, whose leadership has been challenged by pro-Syrian rebels and who had to watch the funeral from a section reserved for the ambassadors of Western and neutral countries. China's Vice Premier Wan Li, the highest-ranking Chinese leader to set foot in Moscow in more than two decades, was received by Soviet...
...control some 80% of the Texas-size country. Despite factional differences and a pressing shortage of modern equipment, the rebels fight on with unflagging ferocity, but they are far from defeating the combined force of the Soviet occupation and the army of the Afghan government led by President Babrak Karmal. So the fighting continues, sporadically and inconclusively, while the cost of maintaining the Soviet presence, estimated at $8 million a day, is financed from Afghan exports to the Soviet Union...