Afghan rebels daunt Red army
MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet
armed forces newspaper on
Monday acknowledged that op
ponents of the Kremlin-sup
ported regime in Afghanistan
are inflicting "immense
damage" on that country's
economy
The unusually detailed article
in Red Star also strongly
suggested that Soviet forces
have suffered heavy losses
since they were sent to the
country in December 1979 to
help the government suppress a
Moslem rebellion It quoted a
leading Afghan official as
saying, "the Afghan peoples’
trust in Soviet soldiers did not
come by itself: a big price was
paid for it."
The article- further ac
knowledged that the rebels
achieved some early successes,
in part because of what the
article described as mistakes by
the Afghan Communist Party in
early 1979
Red Star said the war against
the government still “leaves its
mark” in the Afghan capital city
of Kabul and that food supplies
throughout the country are
being disrupted by guerrilla
raids
But Red Star correspondent
Skrizhalin, a lieutenant colonel,
concluded that actions by
enemies of the Afghan regime
are "becoming increasingly
more futile" and that the
government is making progress
Noor Ahmad Noor, a member
of the governing Politburo of the
Afghan Communist Party, was
quoted as saying, “we can now
state that the revolution has
won.”
The article was one of the
most vivid descriptions of diffi
culties in Afghanistan to appear
in the government-controlled
Soviet press this year In
February, Red Star published
another article acknowledging
that Soviet soldiers in
Afghanistan sometimes have a
“very, very difficult" life
U.S. marines practice
assault landings in Spain
WASHINGTON (AP) - U S
Marines are about to make an
unpublicized practice landing
on the Moroccan coast,
exacerbating delicate talks with
a new Socialist government in
Spain, which already is balking
over American military bases
and its membership in NATO
“We would not like it," said a
Spanish diplomat who asked to
remain anonymous The official
objected to the location of the
impending Marine landing, near
Spanish enclaves on the Mo
roccan coast across from
Gibraltar
At least one senior Pentagon
official is known to have
suggested that the U S -Mo
roccan exercise, described as
the first ever, be postponed or
cancelled But there was every
indication Monday that the
maneuvers would go ahead on
schedule starting today
The exercise comes at a time
when the United States faces
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the possibility of tough
negotiations with the new So
cialist Spanish government over
continued American use of key
bases in Spain
The new Spanish Prime Min
ister Felipe Gonzalez said dur
ing the recent election
campaign that he would try to
renegotiate a base agreement
with the United States signed
only last July. Also, Gonzalez
said Spain would reconsider its
membership in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization,
which it joined in May
The United States needs the
air bases in Spain, but it also
values a recent agreement with
Morocco which gives it access
to air bases there in event of a
Middle East emergency.
The United States has court
ed Morocco as a moderate Arab
state, in addition to the North
African country's importance in
deploying U S emergency
forces.
Plans for the Marine landing
on the Moroccan coast had
been kept under wraps
Pentagon officials indicated the
secrecy surrounding the
increasingly close military ties
between the two countries was
necessary to safeguard Mo
rocco’s position with other Arab
nations less friendly to the Unit
ed States.
For the same reason, the
United States is downplaying a
planned Marine practice
amphibious landing in Oman
either late this month or early in
December
"Some of these countries
want our friendship and benefits
from it, but they don’t want it to
show,” said a Pentagon official
who declined to be identified
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