The World - News from Nov. 8, 1985
About 80 Soviet soldiers were killed in a daylong mutiny at their base in northern Afghanistan, Afghan exiles in Pakistan said. Troops from Soviet Tadzhikistan battled fellow soldiers early last month after Soviet officers executed one of their comrades for setting off a rebel-supplied mine inside the base, the exiles said. They did not know why the executed soldier exploded the mine, but said that he had bought hashish from rebels.
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