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Rebel rockets hit the Soviet Embassy and a Soviet-built housing project in snow-bound Kabul last week on the sixth anniversary of Moscow’s intervention in Afghanistan, Western diplomats in Islamabad, Pakistian, said. Several rockets landed in the embassy compound in western Kabul but caused no visible damage, they said, quoting their first reports received on the Dec. 27 anniversary.
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