ISLAMABAD: Fire and explosions destroyed eight Soviet fighter planes at Kabul airport last week in the biggest single blow to Soviet air power of the Afghan war, diplomats in Pakistan said,

The fire and explosions, believed to have been caused by guerrilla attacks, began on Thursday morning and wrecked eight Su 25 fighters parked on the Tarmac, the diplomats said, quoting intelligence reports from Kabul

 RIO DE JANEIRO, Reuter: Tropical lumber exporters will turn to South America’s vast Amazon jungle after the last forests in Southeast Asia are finished off, participants at an International Timber Conference said on Thursday.

They said the Amazon rain forest, covering over two million square miles in nine countries, should become the world’s main supply point for tropical wood in about 10 or 20 years

 DHAKA: Three hundred Urdu speaking Bihari Moslems staged a sit in outside government offices on Saturday to combine a protest with a demand for their immediate repatriation to Pakistan.

Riot police watched from a distance as they also marched through Dhaka streets carrying placards which read “Kill Us, Shoot Us or Take Us to Pakistan”.

 NEW DELHI: At least 13 people, including a number of children, were killed when a house roof collapsed in Luck now on Saturday, the Press Trust of India said,

The 13 included six members of a family attending a wedding at the house in the north Indian city. PEKING: China has abandoned stability in favor of rapid economic growth to generate the wealth to pay for politically dangerous reforms, western and Chinese economists believe.

COLOMBO: Members of a Sinhalese Marxist Group threw bombs at the homes of two policemen in Central Sri Lanka, killing four people and injuring three, police said on ‘Thursday. BANGKOK: Thailand’s economic boom will last into the 1990s, making the country a leader of the second wave of Asian nations set to join the club of newly industrialized countries, bankers and economists say.

 COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan government minister escaped unhurt on Monday when two suspected leftwing guerrillas opened fire at him, police said.

DHAKA; Four people have been De jamal homeless as floods swept vast areas in Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday,

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Sahab zada Yaqub Khan will visit China, a government statement said.

‘The announcement comes four weeks after President Mohammad Zia ul Hag called off a trip to Peking because of a domestic political crisis.

Article extracted from this publication >> July 1, 1988