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...Soviets did not let the matter rest. The news agency TASS charged that the U.S. had put forward these "brazen anti-Soviet forgeries" as an excuse for stockpiling biological weapons of its own. And at the Geneva conference, the Kremlin's delegate dismissed Western suspicions about the anthrax outbreak as "symptoms of another epidemic disease, namely anti-Soviet hysteria" inspired by the invasion of Afghanistan...
...first time, Moscow publicly acknowledged that all was not well. Pravda admitted on its front page that Kabul was beset by "unrest" and "insurgency." In the frankest admission of all, the official news agency TASS indicated that the Karmal government was in disfavor with a large part of the population. Another surprising admission was attributed by the Italian magazine Panorama to a Soviet general identified as Mikhail Kirian. He publicly conceded that "in the Afghan army, there have been deser tions," and that "the Afghans will have to work hard to put the army in order...
...Squads of armed infantrymen, who had been patrolling only at night, stood guard around government buildings during the day. According to the martial-law decree, all residents of Kabul were ordered to surrender firearms to the police within 24 hours; violators would be taken before "military-revolutionary" courts. A TASS dispatch from Kabul explained that the Interior Ministry had ordered the martial law and curfew in response to "plunder and arson" by Muslim insurgents and what it called "foreign agents, mercenaries and stooges...
...that Moscow was obliged to send troops to rescue Afghanistan from "internal subversion" by American intelligence agents and "threats of major aggressive operations" by the U.S., Britain and China. Washington's offer of military aid to Pakistan provided fresh justification for the conquest of Kabul. The aid package, TASS claimed, was merely a U.S. ploy to provide the Afghan insurgents with arms, thus turning Afghanistan into a base against the U.S.S.R...
...Soviets were plainly shocked by resolutions of the 35-member Islamic conference in Islamabad. TASS denounced the declaration calling for removal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan as "gross interference in the internal affairs" of that country. Casting about for an explanation of this massive Muslim repudiation of Soviet policies, TASS declared that the vote was the result of "arm twisting" by the U.S., which was seeking to" distract attention from the "threat posed by the forces of imperialism and Zionism...