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Soviet Union
finishes pull-out
of Afghanistan
TERMEZ, U.S.S.R. (AP) —
The Soviet Union ended its costly
nine-year intervention in Af
ghanistan on Wednesday when
the last soldier — the commander
of the Red Army contingent —
walked across a border bridge
clutching flowers.
“I wasn’t looking back,” said Lt.
Gen. Boris Gromov after leaving
Afghan soil where 15,000 Soviets
died.
The pullout through this bor
der town — where many of the
115,000 Soviet troops had en
tered Afghanistan — closed a
painful chapter in Soviet history
that Mikhail S. Gorbachev once
called a “bleeding wound.”
But it did little to silence the
critics who said the Kremlin’s De
cember 1979 intervention to aid a
Marxist government against U.S.-
backed Moslem guerrillas was a
costly mistake.
About 200 cheering, wind-
burned soldiers clutched auto
matic rifles as they rode mud-
spattered armored personnel car
riers across the Friendship bridge
over the Amu Darya River on
Wednesday — the U.N.-mediated
deadline for all Soviets to be out
of Afghanistan.
Gromov, the 45-year-old com
mander of the Soviet contingent
in Afghanistan, rode the last ar
mored personnel carrier off Afg
han soil.
His vehicle stopped halfway
across the bridge linking Termez
with the Afghan town of Khaira-
ton, and his 14-year-old son,
Maxim, ran out. He gave his fa
ther a bouquet of carnations and
they walked arm-in-arm the final
yards to Soviet soil.
At the border, the sunburned
general appeared to be near tears
when he said his thoughts were
for his countrymen who served or
died in Afghanistan.
“I thought about those who
were left behind, but most impor
tantly about those who have come
home,” said Gromov, who took
command in Afghanistan in 1984
on his third tour of duty there.
Lt. Col. Igor Azarenok of the
Soviet Defense Ministry said Gro
mov’s headquarters., grpup was
the last to leave, ancj the official
news agency Tass said other
troops crossed the border
Wednesday at Kushka.
In Afghanistan, tens of thou
sands of guerrillas reportedly
were advancing on the capital,
Kabul and other major cities.
The Afghan government
Wednesday night expressed its
appreciation to the Soviet Union
for its assistance. But it also said
relations between the two should
develop on the basis of non-inter
ference in each other’s internal
affairs.
Book enrages Moslems;
Iran wants author dead
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iran on Wednesday placed a $2.6 million bounty on
the head of Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic
Verses” has enraged many of the world’s Moslems, and
he dropped from sight with police guarding his home
and his publishers.
“If the executioner is a foreigner he will receive a
million dollars,” said Hojatoleslam Hassan Saneie, head
of the 15th Khordad Relief Agency, according to the
Iranian news agency.
The reward for an Iranian, however, will be 200 mil
lion rials, or $2.6 million, the Islamic Republic News
Agency quoted Saneie as saying.
Tehran Radio denounced the book as “a shameless
onslaught on the sacred character of Islam’s prophet,”
and protesters shattered windows at the British Em
bassy in Tehran.
“With a glance at the writer of this book one may see
the hidden hands of world imperialism and the devious
role of arrogance in the activities of publication agen
cies which serve it,” said a Tehran Radio broadcast
monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp.
About 2,000 noisy protesters appeared at the British
Embassy in Tehran, Charge d’Affaires Nick Browne
told BBC-TV, but he said authorities protected the em
bassy and the seven people inside.
“There was never any question of any of us being in
danger,” Browne said.
Tehran Radio, monitored by the BBC, reported
other protests Wednesday in Kashan, southeast of the
holy city of Qom, and Firuzukh, east of Tehran.
Six people died earlier this week in protests in Paki
stan.
A day earlier, Tehran Radio quoted Ayatollah Ruhol-
lah Khomeini as saying Rushdie and his publishers “are
hereby sentenced to death.”
“I call on all zealous Moslems to execute them
quickly, wherever they find them, so that no one will
dare to insult Islamic sanctity,” it quoted Khomeini as
saying.
Rushdie — a Moslem born in Bombay, India, and ed
ucated at Cambridge —was reported to be under police
guard Wednesday with his wife, American novelist
Marianne Wiggins, as he pondered whether to go
ahead with a tour of the United States that was to begin
Friday.
“The Satanic Verses” has sold more than 100,000
copies since it was published in Britain in September to
critical acclaim.
At least five countries have formally banned the
novel: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt and South
Africa.
Christian Bourgois, a French publishing house that
bought the rights to the novel, said Wednesday it was
delaying publication to avoid any risk to the company,
its clients and readers.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati told dip
lomats in Tehran the government would order the clo
sure of cultural centers of nations that permit publica
tion of the book, Tehran Radio reported.
“There has been no direct impact on ties so far,”
IRNA said Wednesday, “but by being the first to allow
the book to be published on its soil, Britain could pay a
heavy price for ignoring the strong sentiments of over 1
billion Moslems worldwide.”
Mostafa Barzegar, spokesman for Iran’s Culture and
Islamic Guidance Ministry, announced a ban on books
published by Viking and other imprints of the Penguin
Group, and said Penguin’s invitation to the Tehran In
ternational Book Fair in May has been canceled.
Playwright Harold Pinter led a delegation to Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher’s residence at 10 Downing
St. to deliver a letter denouncing the Iranian threats.
“Salman Rushdie lives in this country and must be
given full protection, along with the other people in
volved,” the letter said.
America’s smaller businesses
reporting early signs of inflation
NEW YORK (AP) — Signs of in
flation are showing up in many of
the smaller businesses of America,
where economic stresses sometimes
make their first appearance.
Some are reporting small in
creases in wage pressure, which has
been at minimal levels through most
of the six-year-old economic expan
sion. Plans to raise prices are on a
sharp ascent. Actual price increases
are rising also.
The evidence is contained in the
latest quarterly economic survey of
small and independent businesses,
ranging from proprietorships to
companies that just fail to make list
ings of the 1,000 largest companies.
The survey, conducted by the Na
tional Federation of Independent
’Business, “shows the worst set of in
flation numbers in the expansion,”
said economist William C. Dunkel-
berg, who analyzes and interprets
the data.
Dunkelberg, dean of Temple Uni
versity’s school of business and man
agement, said first-quarter plans to
raise prices jumped 5 percentage
points from fourth-quarter levels to
30 percent of all companies in the
survey.
The latest percentage contrasts
with only 19 percent in July 1986.
Levels in some categories were even
higher — 38 percent among whole
salers, followed by manufacturing at
37 percent and professional service
firms at 36 percent.
Actual price increases rose to 29
percent, indicating^ that companies
were following through on plans. Al
though that percentage was ex
ceeded briefly early in 1988, Dun
kelberg pointed out that it was close
to the highest since 1981.
The data, gathered from more
than 2,000 written responses from
the 500,000 business members of the
federation, led Dunkelberg to con
clude, “Although not rampant, the
pace of price increases clearly con
tinues to gain momentum.”
He said overall price increases in
the general economy once again may
be held down by falling oil prices,
but without a decline in energy or
food prices, 1989’s inflation rate will
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be above the 1988 experience.
He estimated the first-quarter in
flation level would measure about
4.9 percent on an annual basis, com
pared with a 1988 increase in the
consumer price index of 4.4 percent.
In spite of some evidence of rising
wages, there is no evidence that
gains are ‘alarming,’ ” Dunkelberg
said. He added, however, that as in
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larger wage increases, which they
feel could be funded out of the earn
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companies.
He said employment of the over-
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are at their highest for the more
than six years of expansion.
“Multiple job holding is becoming
quite common,” he said.
Overall, the small business opti
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fourth quarter of 1988.
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