Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 15, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Soviets leave afghan army in charge prom the news services a photo prom the news services Kabul military transport planes carried the last soviet sol Diers Home from Kabul a soviet army officer leaving a conscript afghan army to defend world Afghanistan capital alone for the first time in nine a few Young afghan out assault plan reported As rebel talks collapse los Angeles times Islamabad last minute attempts to form an interim rebel government for Afghanistan collapsed again in rebel infighting amid reports from Diplo Mats and pakistani intelligence sources that the afghan resistance plans a massive rocket attack on the strategic City of Jala Labad within the next few the detailed reports of the planned military assault on the City in East Ern which would be a key Battle of the nine year guerrilla would come within Days of the expected withdrawal of the last soviet troops the latest attempt at Unity came yesterday when the seven political parties in the deeply divided rebel Alliance reconvened an As Sembly of 420 delegates at a religious Camp Here in the pakistani the or broke up after less than two when it became obvious that no Compromise was possible on key issues Between the fundamentalist parties and the moderate groups in the another session of the shura is scheduled for pakistani military intelligence sources that they had All but abandoned Hope for enough political Unity among the groups to form an alternative government to the one in with Hopes for such a solution dimming the sources added that intricate planning has been made for an attempt at a military Resolution the fallout rebel assault on which they said is expected As soon As setback feared several analysts who know of the planned said they feared it could be Sloppy and set Back the rebels goal of taking Kabul by months or even if a rebel assault causes Many civilian it could turn popular sentiment against the rebels in Kabul and make it More difficult for them to bring Down Najibullah Jala Labad is Afghanistan third largest City and is reinforced by at least so called hardcore re Gime members of the afghan secret police and Najibullah trusted presidential Diplo Mats will fight very government of Canada gov element do Canada Mars for of slate or youth minis re de Tat a to Jeunesse Jean j Charest Jean j Charest Side the Airport watched the soviet soldiers Board the planes in Grey dress uniforms and fur Muslim who began fighting after a communist coup in have surrounded and blockaded the hungry City for they fired five rockets into Kabul the Day before the dead line for soviet one rocket killed four children and an old Man lined up in the Snow for the state radio two rockets hit the Airport in the first such attack on the facility for More than a they struck near a runway but soviet soldiers still at the Airport said no one was Poland closed its Kabul embassy yesterday and removed the few remaining As Hungary had done last Western including Brit Ain and the United closed their missions the soviets Are keeping their embassy open but the staff has been soviet soldiers entered afghanis Tan in december 1979 and an Esti mated were in the country when the withdrawal began May under a unmediated agree today is the deadline for All to be in foreign ministry spokesman Vadim Perfilev said the soviet pullout was exactly on sched ule and the last soviet Soldier would be out of afghan territory by the the last soviet troops to leave Kabul had been stationed at the protecting an emergency soviet Airlift of food and fuel that began last soviet officers have said it in tonnes of food in the first half of february before stopping because of the soviet diplomats said several thousand other soldiers were approaching the soviet Border from elsewhere in Kabul markets were crowded yesterday except for the Rock the Cit appeared residents that unsigned letters delivered the past few nights warned people to stay off the streets and away from the Airport beginning Many said they believed the letters were from guerrilla forces outside the some foreign diplomats suggested the letters might be the work of the governments secret to Gennady spokesman for the soviet foreign wrote in his weekly column in soviet culture yesterday that the Depar Ture of soviet troops could turn afghan guerrillas pose near Tunnel at former soviet was this War necessary for us Afghanistan into a second Leba ravaged by constant even the presence of a common As the soviet soldiers were insidiously could not unite the warring Gerasi mov he there is Only one Way out the path of National rec it is a difficult going against a tradition of bloody but it is the Only there will be a second the newspaper lenins Banner published a description of the Vari Ous factions in dominance lacking a realistic evaluation of of does not give grounds for extreme the newspaper because none of the warring groups is dominant either politically or one newspaper quoted a combat hardened army major As asking Why so Many soviet soldiers had to Winnipeg free february 17 arms cuts linked to missile upgrading Belgium a John natos supreme military commander in said yesterday the modernization of Short Range nuclear missiles would permit a major Cut in nuclear Artil i would like to see our Alliance rely primarily on missile capability for the nuclear Side of it in the he told reporters at his Headquarters South of Galvin said he recently gave officials of the North Atlantic treaty organization a confidential report on the alliances future nuclear it Calls for a Strong Cut in artillery which would be replaced by a dependence on he in order to do he i have to have some missiles and that is the and the Lance today is very he declined to say How Many artillery rounds might be reduced with the upgrading of the nato has More than nuclear weapons based in its european arse no breakdown is provided for the upgrading of the Lance sur facet surface missile has become one of the most controversial issues in the 16country Western military analysts say the introduced in 1972 with a Range of about 120 will become obsolete in most of the 700 missiles Are deployed in West Ger Many and the remainder Are in a proposed replacement for them would have a Range of 510 state Secretary James Baker discussed the sensitive Issue this week with West German Chancellor Helmut who has said he wants to delay a final decision on deploy ment of the new generation Lance until 1991 or the United states wants a firm commitment from the on whose soil the weapon would be before it presses Congress for Money to produce the it has hoped for a Strong signal this the Issue of upgrading Short Range nuclear arms has gained prominence since former president Ronald Reagan and soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev signed in de Cember 1987 the intermediate Range nuclear forces were our numerous casualties Justi fied asked Pavel a 32yearold combat Veteran quoted by the labor newspaper trud government spokesmen have said soviet soldiers died and More than were wounded in the nine year a Canadian forces officer will stay behind in Kabul with a United nations observer Force after two Canadian officers accompany the last soviet troops leaving afghanis Tan Murray Allen of the Royal Canadian regiment will remain there and the in have assured us their people there Are Safe and John Mclnnis Doug Mair of the Royal 22nd regiment and Gordon elms of the Royal Canadian regiment Are part of a in Force that is leaving with the take up the Challenge create a Job for a student this the government of in cooperation with the provinces and has funding available to help eligible Call your local Canada employment Centre today deadline for applications is March Anada the Royal Bank has a lot of interest in helping you get the right Asp for an 18 month no redeemable retirement term rate effective february you dont have to give up highly competitive Asp rates in order to get 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