THE Soviet Union is learning in Afghanistan that it cannot get deeply embroiled in the internal affairs of a country without also getting involved in fights among factions within the regime it is supporting and, what is more, sometimes coming out on the losing side in these faction fights. In the power struggle in Kabul in which the present president Hafeullah Amin had overthrown the late Noor Moham
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