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With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...
...message was tapped out on an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. It came from the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and was received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle of the war. We have lost many men, but we will not lose the war." The terse communication was signed by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqani, commander of an Afghan partisan group known as Hesbi Islam, or Islamic Party...
...accuracy of that assessment is difficult to verify, but one thing was clear last week: ferocious fighting was taking place in Afghanistan, some of it within a few miles of the Pakistani border. About 20,000 Soviet paratroopers, backed by Mi-24 helicopter gunships, artillery and armor, blasted the Afghan border provinces of Paktia and Nangarhar. They were resisted, at times in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, by an estimated 5,000 Afghan rebels known as mujahedin. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed on both sides. At least 300 rebel casualties were carried into refugee camps on the Pakistani side...
...Soviet assault apparently began last month with a massive helicopter airlift of paratroopers into the Afghan town of Gardez, 65 miles south of Kabul. For nearly a month, the small Soviet garrison at Khost, 22 miles from the Pakistani border, had been under siege by the Afghan mujahedin...
...President's move was preceded by a flurry of political activity by Bhutto, the daughter of the former Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged by the Zia government in 1979. She received several opposition leaders at her Karachi home and called for a return to democracy. Then she insisted on visiting the families of two party activists hanged earlier this year after being convicted of murdering a pro-Zia politician. Before Bhutto could meet with them, the President decided he had had enough and ordered the police to turn her home into a prison...