The Michiqan Daily-Sunday, January 13, 1980-Page 5 United States*Iran.Afghanlstan Comparison \ Iran Afghan Population: 33.590.000 636.363 Sq. Miles con ct Armed Forces: 342,000 Crude Oil Reserves: 62.0 Billion Bbls. Per Capita Arable Land. 1.1 Acres j Afghanistan (Continued from Page 1) Population: P20a340.000 the Afghan regime. A2ea: -M sDEFENDING THE Soviet actions, 253.861 Sq. Miles UBrezhnev accused the United State sand Armed Forces: "its accomplices" of having launched 110,000 an "undeclared war" agains SCrude Oil Reserves: Afghanistan, sending "thousands and 284 Million Bbls.inugtsare tens of thousands of insurgents, armed Per Capita Arable Land: and trained abroad" into the country. United States Population: "The unceasing armed intervention, 216.820.000 the well-advanced plot by external for- Area ces of reaction created a real threat 3.675.630 Sq. Miles that Afghanistan would lose its in- Arred Forces: dependence and be.turned into an im- 2.088.000 perialist military bridgehead on our Crude Oil Reserves country's southern border," Brezhnev 29.5 Billion Bbls.sad Per Capta Arabe e Land: Source: World Almanac 197778 Figures snnd. 2.1 Acre d l DCM Time Windows The superb speaker system AUDIONICS of Oregon High-Definition-Electronics Your exclusive local dealer is TRANSYSTEMS, call 429-2143 Also open eveningsand Suady for your convenience 1t / /AN ^t% wrow. Ank .10 11 a_ ___ __ 1 Western analysts disagree on theories behind Afghan invasion (Continued from Page 1) *jd his aides with a lineup headed by akrak Karmal. Amin was executed. THE FIRST SOVIET soldiers-from the elite 105th Airborne and 306th Motorized Rifle divisions-have since been joined by as many as 100,000 others, and many Afghans fear they are in their central Asian nation to stay. The sudden removal of Amin, who was as pro-Soviet as-any recent Afghan leader, surprised diplomats here, ignited debate about the Kremlin's ng-term intentions and caused new "oncerns throughout the region. The Soviet military, intervention has removed what Pakistan, Afghanistan's neighbor to the south and east, con- siders an important "buffer." It also has left much of Iran, at Afghanistan's western border, within striking distan- ce of the Soviet forces. SOME WESTERN and;. Asian analysts believe the number of soldiers *,.d the, sophisticated equipment the oviets sent into Afghanistan is con- siderably greater than what was 'needed to put down Moslem Afghan rebels who have been fighting a suc- cession of three Marxist governments for 20 months. Other analysts believe the Soviets are simply determined to put an end to the rebellion as quickly as possible and have no designs on either Pakistan pr Iran. History offers conflicting clues to the ,0viet motives. THE SEARCH for warm-water ports was a key foreign policy consideration for leaders of 19th century Czarist Russia. Intervention in central Asian nations, like the current Soviet inter- vention in Afghanistan, was part of the Russians' design. But one Asian diplomat here said, "Instead of a warm water port, it could be oil or the creation of a sphere of in- fluence over the entire 'Indian subcon- tinent."' Still others think the stakes are dif- ferent in the geopolitical "Great Game"-the term author Rudyard Kipling used. RUSSIA HISTORICALLY has been open to invasion from both east and west, and has long sought to establish a bulwark of friendly states around its borders. Furthermore, some analysts say, the Moslem religious overtone of the Afghan anti-communist rebellion-coming behind Iran's Islamic revolution-may worry the Soviet Union about the susceptibility of its own large Moslem population to the trend. The Soviets and Afghans also claim the intervention was necessary to halt alleged U.S. and Chinese subversive ac- tivities here. . . . to ave acted otnerwise would have meant leaving Afghanistan a prey to imperialism . . . to act otherwise would have meant to watch passively the origination on our southern border of a serious danger to the security of the Soviet state." A STATEMENT issued by Afghan rebel supporters in Islamabad said the rebels scored victories in Nuristan, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces and were now in control of all three. The statement said, "The Soviet Union, which is a superpower, cannot subjugate the Islamic people of Afghanistan, even if it commits its en- tire military might in Afghanistan." Neither the newspaper report nor the rebel claims could be independently confirmed. 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Although the paper, the Urdu-language daily Jang of Rawalpindi, quoted "highly informed sources," there was no way to verify the reliability of the report. Members of Khomeini's special negotiating team to troubled Kurdistan province in western Iran announced they would resume talks Sunday with Kurdish dissidents in the city of Mahabad. ThehKurds seek greater autonomy for their region. Kurdish dissidents were in the 11th day of a sit- in in the most important mosque in Sanandaj sand the governor-general's office to demand that the revolutionary guard pull out of the city. * Almost all 103 candidates intending to run for president in Iran's Jan. 25 elections have been judged unqualified. Interior Minister Rashemi Rafsanjani said. Ninety candidates had been denied the right to advertise on state- owned television and radio, he said, ad- ding that most candidates were "ab- solutely unqualified and in some cases lunatics." 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