Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, whose experience with Muslim militance includes being besieged with 90 others at the burning U.S. embassy in Pakistan in November, managed to reach Kabul aboard a regular flight. Yet her stay was brief: at the airport, which she found to be "a veritable garrison," she and other arriving journalists were held for seven hours before being deported on another flight. But Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photographer on assignment for TIME, managed to prolong his stay. Though he was placed under guard, he was still able to slip away and sneak a few fast photographs...
Kabul had already become an armed camp after 20 months of rising civil war throughout the country; now it is a Soviet garrison town as well. The Afghan police force has, for the most part, been disarmed; Afghan army units, when visible at all, can occasionally be seen squatting along the roads outside town, always in the company of heavily armed Soviet troops. Roadblocks prevent the populace from moving about the city...