THE KABUL REGIME'S cease-fire offer brings to Western attention the political track that Moscow has been quietly developing in Afghanistan-even as its more conspicuous effort goes on to crush the resistance militarily. The formal name of this track is "national reconciliation." Its strategic purpose is to isolate and diminish the guerrillas and their popular following. Its method involves the divide-co-opt-trick-and-bribe tactics which are the traditional stuff of politics in Afghanistan. Its agent is the doctor turned police chief named Najibullah, who now heads the Soviet-imposed ...

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