KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: About 300 Soviet soldiers protection the Kabul airport and a Soviet food airlift will stay at their post until Feb 13.two; days before a U.N. mediated deadline for Moscow’s troop pullout from Afghanistan, officials said Feb 8.
About a mile from the airport, a rebel rocket slammed onto a central Kabul boulevard about 4p.m. Wednesday, killing four people and wounding seven others, an Afghan official said without giving details.
The attack came a day after a guerrilla leader said in published remarks the rebels would enforce their blockade on Kabul rather than mount a direct attack that could leave civilian casualties. Nearly 10 years of civil was having crippled Afghanistan’s agricultural and economic systems, the U.N. Children Fund said Wednesday in London. UNICEF said the Afghan infant mortality rate was now highest worldwide— 329 deaths per 1,000 children.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 17, 1989
