Russians hit rebels
NZPA-Reuter Kabul Lines of Soviet tanks have rumbled out of the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, as a crack Soviet division was reported to have attacked rebels near the border with Pakistan. Diplomats who met a group of foreign journalists at Kabul Airport said Soviet troops, backed by an armada of tanks and aircraft, continued to fan out of Kabul
Soviet troops are reported to have been involved, in fighting since last Thursday’s Moscow-backed coup d’etat in Kabul, and United States officials have said about 250 soldiers were killed.
Details of fighting have been scarce but a corres.pondent. of the Press Trust of. India, quoted highly reliable sources as saying that about 10,000 Soviet troops took part in an attack on a Muslim rebel stronghold Travellers reaching Pakistan said tanks ringed the headquarters camp of Afghanistan’s former elite armoured brigade near Kabul and all other main Afghan Army camps — their guns turned to the installations.
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