The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 04, 1985, Image 14

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Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday September 4,1985
by Jeff MacNelly
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Soviets launch new assault
against Afghan guerrillas
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Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Soviet
commandos battling Af ghan guerril
las fought their way to within 1 '/a
miles of the Pakistan border Tues
day as a major Soviet task force
launched new assaults against the in
surgents.
The Communist government of
Afghanistan, in an unusually de
tailed radio broadcast Tuesday
night, said that its security forces
had inflicted a major defeat on the
guerrillas and killed huge numbers
of the insurgents.
Islamic guerrillas are fighting the
Afghan government, which is sup
ported by an estimated 115,000 So
viet troops.
Afghan rebel commanders said
Soviet commandos had reached
Ghulam Khan just across the Paki
stan border in Afghanistan’s Paktia
province. The sound of artillery Fire
and air strikes inside Afghanistan
could be heard across the border in
the Pakistani town of Miran Shah,
guerrillas there said.
The Afghan Information
Center, an independent
group in the Pakistani
border city of Peshawar
that monitors events in
side Afghanistan, con
firmed that Soviet troops
had almost reached the
border.
routes used to bring arms and am
munition across the bolder from
bases in Pakistan, said the command
ers, speaking on condition they not
be identified.
Heavy Fighting was raging across
much of Paktia province as about
10,000 Soviet troops continued an
offensive against guerrilla supply
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