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...funny thing happened to Felix Ermacora's report to the United Nations on human rights violations in Afghanistan. The document, the result of a two-week stay by the Vienna University law professor among Afghan refugees along the Pakistani border, catalogs intensified Soviet military operations, continued air raids by occupying Soviet forces against civilian targets, the use of gas and chemical weapons and booby-trapped toys, and torture -- supervised by Soviet observers -- in Afghan prisons...
Typical of the seesaw battle has been the fight for Barikot, a garrison just across the border from the Pakistani town of Arandu. Barikot is a major base of Soviet operations to block rebel supplies from abroad. Since the mujahedin first attacked the northeastern frontier outpost six years ago, the Soviets have broken the siege twice, only to see the rebels re-establish it. Robert Schultheis, an American free-lance writer, recently made his third trip into Afghanistan since the war began -- and his second for TIME -- and observed the fighting around Barikot. His report...
...news was that Middle East terrorism was again on the increase. Neither Pakistani authorities investigating the attempted hijacking of a Pan American airliner in Karachi two weeks ago nor Turkish police probing the massacre of 21 worshipers at a synagogue in Istanbul had yet announced the identity of the perpetrators or their mentors. In Lebanon, meanwhile, gunmen kidnaped two more Americans in West Beirut, bringing to six the number of U.S. citizens who, along with a dozen foreigners of other nationalities, are believed to be held hostage in that country by various terrorist groups. And in southern Lebanon, after Palestinian...
Piecing together a clear picture of precisely what happened during the closing minutes of the incident was complicated by the inconsistency of Pakistani authorities in explaining what they had done. At first they implied that once the aircraft lights had failed, they had ordered their commandos to storm the plane. The Reagan Administration immediately announced that the Pakistanis had handled the situation "boldly and decisively" -- a statement intended mainly to demonstrate Washington's satisfaction with Pakistan's cooperation...
...shooting spree before Pakistani commandos storm the craft...