The World - News from Dec. 12, 1986

Afghan leader Najib arrived in Moscow for top-level talks, and a Soviet spokesman said there are “real and genuine opportunities” to settle the seven-year-old guerrilla war in Afghanistan. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev is expected to see Najib during the Afghan leader’s first visit to Moscow since he took over as general secretary of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Before his arrival, Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris D. Pyadashev praised Najib for following a course of “national reconciliation” in the seven months since he replaced Babrak Karmal in the top party post.