Russian moves in Afghanistan

Press, 23 February 1980, Page 14

Russian moves in Afghanistan

Sir, —As I have already answered Jan Wilkins’s minimising the importance of the S o v i e t-Afghanistan Treaty, (February 21), I should like to answer her complaint that I “cannot ever find fault with the boys in the Politburo.” Her complaint is amusing. As all the space I am permitted is spent answering misrepresentations and. distortions of every aspect of Soviet life and every policy act of “the boys in the Politburo,” I find little room to manoeuvre, rationally and objectively, to consider the faults of “the boys in the Politburo,” or perhaps Jan Wilkins has never noticed, and certainly never com-

plained, that Western press and propaganda organs never find anything but fault with “.the boys in the Politburo.” Soviet troops did not kill “the Prime Minister who supposedly asked for Soviet assistance.” Hafisullah Amin’s execution was a purely internal matter for the Afghan People’s Democratic Party Government. —Yours, etc., M. CREELFebruary 21, 1980.