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...Palestine Liberation Organization, has changed considerably since they met in the Pakistani capital last January. The final resolution of that conference attacked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The muted resolution adopted by last week's conference called for a Soviet troop withdrawal, but it also kowtowed to the Kremlin by urging a reasoned "political" approach to the problem...
...accept demilitarization for the foreseeable future. To maintain internal security, they would need a police force equipped with small arms, but they would not be allowed to receive such offensive weapons as artillery, planes and tanks. The combination of Israeli military power and a detection system capable of monitoring troop movements and air maneuvers should be a deterrent to attack. Any breach of the demilitarization agreement would bring a quick response by Israeli forcesand probably a return of the Israeli presence...
Starvation, in fact, may be a greater threat than Soviet firepower. Most of the fertile lowland is under military control. Rice fields by the Kunar River have been turned into helicopter landing pads. Troop convoys monopolize the Pich River bridge. In addition, ever since the Pakistan government's new policy of "strict neutrality" toward the Afghan insurgency, overland resupply across the border has become increasingly unsuccessfuland expensive, since the required bribes at border posts have risen accordingly. As a result, mujahidin in the hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only...
Every morning, as the weak spring sunshine breaks through the mists and low clouds swathing the jagged snowcapped mountains ringing Kabul, flocks of Soviet helicopters-Mi-24 "Flying Tank" gunships and Mi-8 troop and supply carriers-lift off from the airport and roar across the city on flight paths calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces...
McCue's main worry is the trail of tuition dollars that will drift out of his grasp as the CRP students troop across campus. Allison, on the other hand, has so many administrative knots to untangle that he sees the millions needed for expansion as only one element of "a classic list of problems." First, he and his faculty must decide how to integrate CRP into the Public Policy program while reassuring students such as Scott Muldavin who say, "CRP people are concerned that they will be delegated to second banana over at the Kennedy School." Echoing McCue, Allison says...