The World - News from Oct. 9, 1985

Soviet and Afghan forces pounded guerrilla strongholds west and south of the capital of Kabul last week, forcing the rebels to start pulling out of some areas, Western diplomats and Afghan exiles said. Most of the attacks reportedly took place around Paghman, a former royal resort in the mountains northwest of Kabul, and at Maidan Shahr in the Loghar Valley south of the capital, a key transit area. The diplomats, based in Pakistan, also reported that Cuba’s charge d’affaires in Kabul had been shot to death, apparently accidentally by a staff member. They had no details.