There are numerous allegations that the Russians have employed lethal chemical agents against the guerrilla forces. According to the State Department. 2.000 to 3.000 people have died as a result of these chemical attacks. Three million Afghan refugees. mostly women and children. now live under very harsh conditions in Pakistan. and there appears to be little chance they will soon return home. On four separate occasions. the 43member Islamic conference has passed resolutions calling on the U.S.S.R. to withdraw its military forces and to restore Afghanistan to its traditional nonalined role. Last fall in the United Nations General Assembly 116 countries endorsed a resolution also calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
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