The Afghanistan civil war
Provinces rebels claim to have taken complete control of
since the ouster of President Najibullah last week.
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
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Afghan rebels in power feud
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — With
Muslim guerrillas claiming they now
control all major cities but Kabul, a
U.N. special envoy pleaded Monday
for a cease-fire by government forces
and rival rebel groups.
Benon Sevan, who was trying to
mediate a settlement of the nearly 14
year-old civil war before the fall of
President Najibullah last week, said
he was trying to negotiate safe pas
sage out of the country for the ousted
leader.
Sevan said agreement was close
for an interim government to replace
the Soviet-installed government, but
a radical fundamentalist group re
jected that idea. The group, Hczb-e
Islami, threatened Monday to attack
Kabul if the city was not surrendered
to its fighters in one week.
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A more moderate group, Jamiat-e
Islami, which is considered the best
organized of Afghanistan’s many rebel
organizations, said its troops had
formed a protective ring outside the
capital. Troops of the crumbling
Communist government held the city
itself.
Many people fear the civil war
will degenerate into fighting among
the various factions and turn this city
of 1.5 million people into a battle
ground. An estimated 2 million Af
ghans already have died in the war
and 5 million more have fled their
homes.
Sevan urged the rebels to put aside
their “personal and political ambi
tions’’and work out a peaceful transi
tion to a new government.
KGB tried to murder writer
Newspaper says
Solzhenitsyn
suffered burns
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MOSCOW (AP) — KGB agents
secretly poisoned Alexander Solz
henitsyn at a department store candy
counter in a bungled 1971 assassina
tion attempt that left the dissident
writer with serious bums, a journalist
reported Monday.
The Sovershenno Sckretno (Top
Secret) newspaper said it received a
letter from Solzhenitsyn saying he
never knew what caused the large
bums over most of his body. It look
him about three months to heal.
Another newspaper, Izvestia, also
reported on the mysterious attack and
said Bulgarian secret agents treated
an umbrella with the same type of
poison in 1978 and used it to kill
dissident Georgi Markov in London.
It was unclear how agents poi
soned Solzhenitsyn without his knowl
edge. The Nobel laureate, who now
lives in Cavendish, Vt., could not be
immediately reached for comment.
Dmitri Likhanov, who writes for
Top Secret, said in an interview with
The Associated Press that his story
was based on eyewitness accounts of
the assassination attempt taken from
the memoirs of retired KGB Lt. Col.
Boris Ivanov.
Likhanov’s article, accompanying
documents from Ivanov and the letter
attributed to Solzhenitsyn are sched
uled to be published in Top Secret
this week.
A spokesman for the Russian suc
cessor to the KGB, Alexei Kondau
rov, called the report “absurd” but
said he was unable to disprove it.
“If Yuri Andropov, then KGB chief,
had ever dared to undertake such an
action it would have inevitably caused
a thunderstorm of public indignation
all over the world,” Kondaurov told
Izvestia. Andropov later became chief
of the Communist Party and head of
the Soviet state.
Ivanov is still alive, but attempts
to get his telephone number or ad
dress were unsuccessful.
Solzhenitsyn, best known for his
works “One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich,” and “The Gulag Archi
pelago,” chronicling Stalinist repres
sion, won the Nobel Prize in literature
in 1970. He was expelled from his
homeland on treason charges in 1974.
According to Ivanov’s memoirs
— quoted by Likhanov — he was
ordered to accompany two other se
cret police agents to the town of Rostov
on-the-Don in southern Russia on a
mission to kill Solzhenitsyn in Au
gust 1971.
The agents followed the writer to a
department store in nearby Novoch
erkassk. Solzhenitsyn entered the candy
department, where he was approached
by the agents and separated from other '
shoppers. The agents then attempted
to poison him, the memoirs said.
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