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...them. Bullets are too expensive. Maybe we will stone them to death, or cut their throats, or throw them off a cliff." Despite heavy Soviet pressure, the resistance fighters remain confident. "The mujahedin are better organized than before, better unified than before, with better morale than before," says Massood Khalili, a guerrilla political officer. New weapons like surface-to-surface rockets, Oerlikon antiaircraft guns and the Stingers have helped immensely. The Stingers, for example, are potent weapons against the once omnipotent Mi- 24 helicopter gunship. Battlefield communication and coordination among mujahedin groups have also improved with the introduction of field...
Popular support for the guerrillas appears to be holding fast. "The Russians have found that it is not just a bunch of mujahedin they are fighting, it is the nation as a whole," says Khalili. "They found that all Afghans are really mujahedin, whether it is a seven-year-old child who gives information about the enemy or an old man of 70 who gives us a piece of bread...
Many of the Iranian students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who last week pledged not to cooperate with Department of Immigration registration proceedings belong to the group, Houmayon Khalili, an Iranian student at MIT, said yesterday...
...University devised its policy, a step that came just in time for students like Parviz Khalili '82, who went to registration in January without tuition funds. An official sent him to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who signed a piece of paper and told Khalili he could go to classes while he waited for the money to arrive...
...signed a paper and told me I could go to school while I waited for the money to come," Khalili said...