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In the current elections, whose final results will be known in early April, Banisadr's primary goal is to win a majority of seats in the new 270-member parliament against his principal clerical opposition, the Islamic Republic Party of the Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti. If he succeeds, a settlement...
Other reports said that a major battle took place near the central blue-domed Pul-i-Hesti mosque, where Muslim worshipers coursed through the streets waving Islamic banners. At least 15 students were said to have been killed when the anti-Soviet demonstrations spread to Kabul University. Hundreds of women...
With MiG-21s buzzing low overhead, and the sound of sporadic gunfire echoing across scattered parts of the city, Kabul was described by foreign residents as being "in the grip of crisis." From the shopping streets of the Shari-i-Nao district to the alleyways of the Shorbazaar in the...
Might one reason why the Soviet Union moved into Afghanistan be to prevent the spread of a political locust plague into the U.S.S.R.? Begmatova denied heatedly that she had intended any such analogy: It is the official Soviet position that the Central Asian republics are utterly loyal to Moscow and...
The point of this chilling scenario is that every argument one now hears being advanced by the Soviets to justify the invasion of Afghanistan could also be applied to the Iranian crisis hypothesized above. The Soviets repeatedly-and, quite possibly, with some sincerity-deny having a grand design for a...