The World - News from Nov. 27, 1985
At least eight people have been assassinated in the Afghan capital of Kabul in what appears to be part of a factional conflict within the ruling Communist Party, Western diplomats said in Islamabad, Pakistan. The party is divided between the ruling Parcham group and the dissident Khalq faction in a dispute over how communism should be achieved in Afghanistan.
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