In the fourth year of the Soviet occupation, there were four million Afghan exiles,

and an estimated one million had been killed. "Historians," WFB begins, "will perhaps record that the West rallied to the aid of Afghanistan by depleting our representation at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980." The two guests speak a slightly unidiomatic English, but they are eloquent in their fervor for their country and their God, and persuasive in their assertion that it would be in other countries' interests to assist them. AA: "The Russians are not coming to Afghanistan as tourists. They are preparing for other countries. They want to reach, as soon as possible, to the Persian Gulf to cut the neck of the oil."