MOVIES - July 14, 1988

More glasnost news: A new documentary film, now showing in a Moscow cinema, exposes trading in drugs and gold between police in Soviet Turkmenia and Afghan rebels, the official news agency Tass reported this week. The film, titled “Aura,” tells the story of one A. Kakabayev, chief of police in the Takhta-Bazar region of Turkmenia (a region on the border with Afghanistan), who was buying up gold from the local population. “He was passing it over the border in exchange for drugs. And there over the border, this gold was being converted into weapons for killing (Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan),” Tass said.