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...since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels in Afghanistan. On narcotics, the Administration and Junejo managed nothing better than statements of concern...
...Certainly Najibullah, a loyal protege of Karmal's, seems unlikely to lead his country in any radically new directions. However, having built the secret police into a disciplined, KGB-style network of 60,000 agents, the major general may bring a new intensity to the civil war with the mujahedin rebels. Najibullah is, says a European diplomat in Islamabad, "an efficient killer...
THIS MONTH MARKS the sixth anniversary of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Poorly-armed Afghan freedom fighters, known in their own language as "mujahedin," have somehow managed to hold out against over 100,000 Soviet troops armed with the most advanced military hardware ever used on a civilian population. Although Afghanistan is presently the site of the worst genocidal atrocities since World War II, the U.S. news media continues to virtually ignore the Afghan struggle by devoting little or no broadcast time or print space...
...recent murder by Soviet troops of an American journalist, Charles Thornton of the Arizona Republic, illustrates this point. Thornton's death occurred shortly after the Soviet Embassy in Kabul issued a warning that Soviet forces would actively seek out and execute journalists covering the mujahedin. Whereas the slaying of a network cameraman in Samoza's Nicaragua made front page headlines a few years ago, Thornton's slaying was hardly mentioned in the U.S. news media. Imagine the stories which would have reported Thornton's slaying had he been killed in El Salvador or South Africa...
...time Soviet relief forces moved on Khost, some 5,000 guerrillas were dug in outside the town. A first assault, which began on Aug. 25, lasted for two days and nights and was finally repulsed. On Sept. 1, the Soviets began their second attack and initially broke through mujahedin lines, after troops on both sides had fought with bayonets and daggers. For a while, the mujahedin were able to hold the Soviet advance. But that night the Soviets brought forward fresh troops, and the guerrillas melted into the surrounding countryside. If nothing else, the campaign showed that Moscow was willing...