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Still-life by shellfire. (Afghanistan)
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QARGA DAM-Through field glasses, the Communist defenses of Kabul appear as a line of citand castles perched atop a range of hillocks on the outskirts of the city. Flanking the solid square bulks of mud-brick fortifications, black silhouettes of dug-in tanks, forward bunkers, and gun emplacements with the guns raised high are clearly visible against a carpet of snow. The Qarga Dam-in whose lake Soviet soldiers used to go swimming-along with the adjacent grounds of the diplomatic golf course, has been turned into a bastion. Kabul's grain silos, the rock with the ancient Bala…
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Still-life by shellfire. (Afghanistan)
...personnel carriers and trucks that had tried to get through with supplies and were destroyed in guerrilia ambushes. But they are still cocky. They shoot mortar shells into the guerrilia territory throughout the day, and the night sky is torn by orange lines... |
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Part Three: Life in Kabul
...It was here in Afghanistan after all, that...as New Yorkers still struggle to cope...pavements. There's still that familiar stench...and petrol fumes. Still, there is the same...a crazy angle by shellfire and against which...apt metaphor for Afghanistan today. A sad... |
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Caputo explores his addiction to danger
...s city room was still a place of noise...from Saigon to Afghanistan, Caputo ends up...humping the hills in Afghanistan to see that war...example, Caputo under shellfire during his second...correspondent who made life overseas sound like...prepares to travel to Afghanistan, "how I ... |
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Chechen leader swears revenge on Moscow
...because of fears for his life. Occasionally he laughed...patrolled by fighters still in their teens. "Tens...Islamic, have trained in Afghanistan and Bosnia. As he spoke...and the sounds of heavy shellfire and rocket attacks were...that many civilians were still in the village. Between... |
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Fisk: On tour with my ghosts On a whirlwind trip to promote his new book,...
...the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq war...that night that I was still in Melbourne. And Beirut...I lay crouched under shellfire, noting the wedding...his blackened finger, still bright with love for...had not missed out on life, that perhaps comparative... |
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