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Soviet convoys roll
north from Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The last
military convoys rolled north toward
the bonier Monday. Soviet officials
said, more than a week before the
deadline for the Red Army to leave a
frustrating war in which it lost more
than 13.000 men.
Hundreds of Soviet soldiers
guarded the airport, where military
transports brought in fixxi and fuel to
ease shortages caused by a blockade
of Kabul by Moslem guerrillas who
surround it.
In Moscow. the Communist Party
newspaper Pravda said “the last
Soviet soldier left Kabul' on Sun
day. Soviet officials in Uic Afghan
capital, however, said about 1,000
Red Army troopers would remain at
the airport until the end of next w eek.
Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the
Soviet foreign minister, met with
officials in neighboring Pakistan but
did not find a way to end the 11 -yeair
old civil war peacefully. He said
Monday the Soviets would continue
supporting the Marxist government
in Kabul but would not send troops
back into the country.
Soviet envoy Yuli Vorontsov left
Tehran after talks with Afghan guer
rillas leaders in Iran. Afghanistan's
neighbor on the west
He said he hoped “all political
forces" would join a coalition gov
ernment after the Soviets arc gone,
Iran’s official news agency reported,
but the insurgents have consistently
refused such proposals.
Moslem guerrillas began fichunc
after a communist coup in April I97K
and Soviet soldiers entered Afghani
stan in December 1979. gTow inc in
numbers to an estimated 115.000 by
the time the w nhdraw I began May 15
under a U.N.-mediated agreement
All are to be out of the country by
Feb 15. The Kremlin says more than
1.3.000 Soviet soldiers were killed
Mid 35,000 wounded in the nine
years
So\ ict diplomats said Monday all
Rod Army soldiers in Shtndand had
left their garrison, the last Soviet
military complex in the country.
They said the soldiers b.aded out of
the western city over the weekend to
meet a convoy at Herat and were
expected at the border Wednesday or
Thursdav.
Pra\cta said Soviet troops had
moved defensive checkpoints on the
Salang Highway to about 50 miles
north of Kabul at a tunnel through
some of the roughest terrain of 260
mile w ithdrawal route.
Pravda said insurgents did not at
tack Soviet convoys on the Salang,
the only land route to the Soviet bor
der from the capital, but four ava
lanches crashed down on retreating
columns Sunday. It reported three
soldiers killed and one injured.
“Terrorist grenades” wounded
three So\ iet officers who were hand
ing over vehicles to the Afghan army
Sunday in a Kabul suburb, the paper
said
At Tcrmez. a Soviet border city
where an airborne regiment arrived
Monday from Afganistan. Lt. Col.
Igor Korolev said the last Red Army
soldiers were moving toward the
border. He said units were traveling
north from Balkh. Samangan,
Baglan, Parvan and Herat prov inces.
Thousands of residents, service
men and relatives greeted the men of
the VSOth Parachute Regiment as they
came across the Friendship Bridge
ov-CTthe Amu River into Tcrmez. The
unit had been in Afghanistan since
1984.
A brass band played. Soldiers
waved flags and stuffed red carna
tions into the muzzles of their subma
chine guns.
On the road behind the Kabul air
port, by contrast, several young Sovi
ets clutched their nfles nervously as
they manned checkpoint bunkers.
Andrei, a 20-year-old from
Moldavia, said he and the others
would be flown home before Feb. 15
but had not been told exactly when.
Tass. the official Soviet news
agency, said guerrilla shelling killed
eight people in Kabul province. It
said one person was killed and two
were wounded in the cities of Gardiz
and Khost in Pakua province.
Rockets and nocket-propeiled gre
nades hit residential areas in Herat
and the airport at Kandahar in the
south, the agency said.
Guerrillas control nearly the Af
ghan countryside and. w hen the Sovi
ets are gone, holding the cities w ill be
left to Afghanistan's conscript army.
The insurgents predict the Marxist
regime of President Najib. who uses
only one name. w ill collapse quickly.
Roll call vote set for Wednesday
WASHINGTON - House Speakei
Jan Wnght bowing to opponents of a
SI percent congressional pa> raise,
announced today he would order a
raH call vote on the.issue Wednesday
before the boost can uikc effect
"TV Rhyont> has spoken and the
majon!> *ill speak even mere can
phaucail) toanorrem ... TV auyont)
will rale," V said.
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Armenian earthquake, some so se
verely injured that their limbs, skulls
and bones are crushed, arc beginning
to arrive in the United States this
week f or medical treatment.
Their stories are varied and tragic,
doctors who participated in the relief
effort said Monday.
For example, 15-ycar-old Lena
has come to the United Slates for
operations that may restore her para
lyzed left hand. Doctors say she was
trapped under the rubble for three
days with her mother. Unaware her
mother had died, the teen-ager
clutched her so tightly that her hand
was frozen into a claw shape.
“The (Soviet) doctors told us very
sad stories,” Nishan G.
Goudsouzian, chief of pediatric anes
thesiology at Massachusetts General
Hospital said at a news conference.
“They said that they didn’t get their
first smile from a kid for three weeks.
The kids couldn’t sleep through the
night. They said one would start
crying and ail the others would
start.”
Two American organizations,
Project HOPE and Amcricares, are
coordinating what are the first airlifts
of Armenian earthquake victims to
the United States.
Fifteen Armenians arrived Sun
day in New York City w ith the help of
a iv/uvi ~
New Canaan, Conn. The patients arc
scheduled to go to hospitals in New
York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and
Missouri for treatment. Americans
officials said they expect another air
lift of victims to arrive in the United
States by the end of the week.
A group of 37 children sponsored
by the Virginia-based organization
Project HOPE, is expected to arrive at
Andrews Air Force Base in Washing
ton,D.C. Thursday. Four of the chil
dren will be taken to Massachusetts
General Hospital for treatment. The
others will go to hospitals in Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York,
Florida and Ohio. Each child will be
accompanied by a guardian, Project
HOPE officials said.
Most of the adults and children
need surgical and reconstructive
treatment. The average slay will be
from two to three months, doctors
said.
Dr. John Rcmensnydcr, a plastic
surgeon from Massachusetts General
who was part of the relief team, said
the quality of care given in the Soviet
Union to the victims was “excel
lent.* ’
Nine physicians from Amcricares
participated in the medical relief ef
fort in Armenia. Eight doctors, in
cluding five from Massachusetts
General Hospital, flew to Armenia in
the Project HOPE effort.
thousands injured in the Dec. 7 quake
which killed about 25,000 people and
left 500,000 homeless.
The Project HOPE team selected
32 children from hospitals in Yere
van, the capital of Armenia, and five
children were chosen from hospitals
in Moscow where they had been
transferred.
The Washington, D.C.-based
Armenian Assembly of America
found volunteers in various cities
where the patients are slaying to visit
and watch over them.
“They have severe orthopedic or
reconstructive needs,” said Amcri
carcs spokesman Steve Norman.
“Wc’rc talking about crushed pel
vises. We have cases in which whole
buildings fell on people’s legs and
arms. The physicians believe these
are salvageable cases.”
Doctors plan to insert tendon
implants, muscle implants and use
skin grafts to “rebuild sections of
bodies that arc missing,” Norman
said.
In one case, he said, the leg of one
victim had to be amputated quickly
under less than ideal circumstances to
save the person’s life. But since the
operation was not done properly, the
victim is being sent to the United
Slates so doctors can replace his hip
and the upper portion of his leg with
a prosthesis.
Adviser: change would allow Solidarity
WARSAW, Poland ~ The gov
ernment's top delegate to historic
talks with the opposition opened
the first session Monday by offer
ing to legalize Solidarity if the
union agrees to economic and po
litical reforms.
Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw
Kiszczak, seated opposite Solidar
ity leader Lech Watesa, called for
the opposition to participate in
Poland’s government.
Fifty-seven delegates from the
government, the opposition and
the Roman Catholic Church gath
ered for the talks at the ornate
Council of Ministers Palace, the
building where the Warsaw Pact
was created.
The delegates met for about
three hours and issued a short
communique that said talks by
three "working groups" would
resume Wednesday. One group
will consider economic and social
policies, another political reforms
and the third the issue of allowing
more than one union to exist
"We were brought together
here by the sense of responsibility
for the future of our motherland.
We are all responsible for the Po
land to be," Kiszczak told the
participants, the state-run news
agency PAP reported.
"We must accept the philoso
phy of necessity alongside that of
the gradual character of transfor
mations," he said. "As it goes for
trade union pluralism, there is no
question if, but the point is how."
"We demand Solidarity. We
have the right to it,” Walesa said
in his speech, PAP reported.
Walesa blamed Poland’s eco
nomic and political crisis on a lack
of freedoms, but said he sensed the
government was ready for change,
state-run TV reported.
Known as die round table, the
talks arc the first between Solidar
ity and the government since the
union was suppressed by the mar
tial-law crackdown in December
1981.
“If we work out at the round
tabic... a confirmed consensus on
the idea of non-confromational
elections as well as support for
planned political and economic
reforms, there will be an immedi
ate possibility’ ’ to allow more than
one trade union to exist ai a given
factory* Kiszcsgk said.
Some sex therapists face
an ethical dilemma with
new AIDS-infected patients
LOS ANGELES - AIDS is fore
ing sex therapists to confront new
ethical issues in deciding how to treat
patients who also are infected by the
virus.
“Do we as physicians have the
nght to withhold treatment of sexual
dysfunction in paueius who have a
potentially lethal disease?” Dr.
Brenda Lightfootc-Young of the
Sepulveda Veterans Administration
Hospital asked in January’s issue of
The Western Journal of Medicine.
The ethical dilemma was illus
trated by the case of a 55-year-old
AIDS mfccted man who was unable
to have an erection because of circu
lauon problems stemming from dia
betes.
Before the nun's AIDS infection
was dM^mwftd a sex therapy dime
had promised bun a device that
wouldhelp him achieve and maintain
erections » he could have sex. After
it was revealed the man earned the
acquired immune deficiency syn
drome viiuv. he compaauacd ittu
dime staff members were stalling
him.
“This patient had frequented
bathhouses before his positive
lAIDS) test and was ambivalent re
eardu« b& sexual pcacuces m the
future." Lightfoote-Young wrote in
a letter to the journal. "He made no
commitment ... to use his newly
functional penis inside a condom."
The man got the device after
promising to wear a condom and in
form any sex partners that he was
infected, she said in an interview.
His case not only raises the ques
tion of whether doctors should with
hold treatment for such people's sex
ual disorders, hut also whether treat
incut should be prov ided only if pa
tients promise to engage only in
“safe" sexual activities that won’t
spread the virus to other people.
Among ife questions it raises, said
Lightfoote-Young, are, "By what
measure can we be responsible if a
patient does infect another person
white using a device to enhance sex
ual function'*
"If we do not treat sexual dysfunc
tion in (AIDS-infected) patients, are
we infringing upon the rights of the
individual, as this patient alleged**
"And what of society and our
responsibility to the health of poten
tial pinners'* Arc the patient's verbal
assurances sufficient, or docs there
need to be a formal psychiatric as
sessment of a pattern's stability and
rekaWii);'’*. ...
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