With weapons of total war
Poison gas attacks. Napalm. Strafing by jets. Random executions of women and children.
According to tribesmen fleeing across the mountainous terrain into Pakistan last week, these are among the weapons and methods of total war that the Soviets are now using to subdue Afghanistan. The unanimity of the witnesses' accounts—even allowing for some exaggeration—left little doubt that the Soviets were attempting to sanitize and seal the most porous part of the border with Pakistan by wiping out rebel resistance in Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces. Said one Pakistani official who has been trying to aid the nearly...
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