The World - News from June 6, 1985

Soviet forces control much of Afghanistan’s Kunar Valley after two weeks of battle, but Muslim guerrillas are preparing counterstrikes, rebel sources said in Islamabad, Pakistan. Officials from two of the main resistance groups said that helicopter-borne commandos and paratroops seized most of the strategic points in the eastern Afghan valley, near the Pakistani border, and that armored columns are linking up with them. Western sources say the Soviet drive is aimed at choking off rebel supply routes from Pakistan.