The World - News from April 7, 1989
Afghan rebels ignored a unilateral cease-fire called by the government and fired rockets into Kabul, causing a fire that destroyed 13 tanker trucks that had just reached the Afghan capital with fuel. Officials said no one was killed in the attack but that rebel rockets killed 16 in the preceding three days. In Washington, the Administration chose Peter Tomsen, deputy chief of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, as a special presidential envoy to the Afghan guerrillas, Administration sources said.
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