Word: qadir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often happens with revolutions, purge has followed purge in Afghanistan. Half a dozen pro-Moscow leftist leaders were shifted abroad as ambassadors and later fired. Then the government turned on Brigadier Abdul Qadir, the Soviet-trained air force officer who helped bring it to power but was suspected of renewed ambitions. He is now in the detention barracks at Puli Charki tank base. The barracks are speedily being enlarged to house perhaps 1,000 centrist intellectuals, political extremists and dissident officers arrested by a worried government...
...like "a great power." But U.S. room for maneuver is as limited as the Afghans'. Conservative Muslim tribesmen in provinces bordering Pakistan have rebelled against government reforms; some air force squadrons, which strafed them last month, have been grounded by the arrest of pilots loyal to Qadir...