Word: hafizullah
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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Photographs of Author-President Noor Mohammed Tarakki, 61, smile benignly from every conceivable public place, but the purges seem to have delivered the levers of power to Foreign Minister Hafizullah Amin. A former schoolteacher, Amin has so far managed to keep a sure foot on an ideological tightrope. When he is abroad in Havana or at the United Nations, his harangues often sound like those of a Communist, but at home he does not always act like one. He has eagerly signed aid deals with the U.S., Japan and the World Bank, which is setting up fruit-export agencies...