70 Year Magazine Archive

Next Stop—Kabul

by Charles Bork

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NEXT STOP-KABUL

On May 15, the day the Soviets began troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, there were over 125 journalists checked into the three biggest hotels in Peshawar, Pakistan. Peshawar’s resident foreign press looked askance at their visitors from civilization, and cringed during press conferences when they heard questions directed to big-shot resistance leaders like, “Are you guys Moslems, or what?”

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