Mr. President. the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. now in its seventh tragic year. has hardly attracted the attention such savagery demands. According to the latest report of the U.N.s special rapporteur. nearly 5 million Afghansapproximately onethird of the countrys populationare refugees in neighboring countries. Civilian casualties numbered 35.000 in 1985 alone. Nevertheless. the American public has been strangely silent on this issue. largely because of Moscows "media curtain" around Afghanistan. This is. however. beginning to change. as evidenced by the reaction of Americans to a recent article in Readers Digest. entitled "Agony in Afghanistan." Written by JeanFrancois Revel and Rosanne Klass. and condensed from National Review. the piece portrays the Soviet war in stark terms.
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