a011  2256  29 Apr 85
PM-Foreign Briefs,0566
    PEKING (AP) - Aircraft bombed ice floes that had caused flooding in
China's Heilongjiang River, says the official Xinhua news agency.
    The agency said the floods had washed away hundreds of houses and
affected more than 10,000 people.
    The agency said Monday the aircraft also dropped relief food
supplies to stranded people. No deaths were reported.
    The Heilongjiang flows along China's border with the Soviet Union.
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    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Afghanistan has announced that all male
citizens between the ages of 18 and 40 who have not served in the
armed forces must report for military service immediately.
    The call by the official Radio Kabul, monitored in Islamabad, said
there would be no exceptions. The announcement was made as the
Marxist government in Afghanistan indicated that it intends to expand
its struggle against Islamic guerrillas who oppose the Kabul regime
and the Soviet troops that support it.
    In December 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, ousting one
Marxist government and replacing it with another pro-Moscow regime.
Western intelligence sources estimate that there are about 115,000
Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan.
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    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Iran has freed 42 Iraqi prisoners of war at
Ankara airport, a Foreign Ministry official reported.
    Iran had said it would hand over 48 disabled Iraqi prisoners to
Turkey's Red Crescent Society, but its official Islamic Republic News
Agency said six of the Iraqis requested political asylum and remained
in Iran.
    The Iraqi prisoners of war were flown to Baghdad on Monday.
    Iran and Iraq have been at war since September 1980, when Iraq
invaded its Persian Gulf neighbor in an attempt to gain full control
of the Shatt al Arab estuary, which forms part of the border and is
Iraq's only sea outlet.
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    STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Doctors at Karolinska Hospital are planning
on how to care for the first non-American recipient of a permanent
artificial heart after he is released from the hospital, says a
doctor.
    Dr. Kim Book told reporters Monday: ''The patient is still in good
spirits, his kidney function is normal and his condition is steadily
improving.''
    The hospital has not identified the Swede, who on Easter Sunday
became the fourth person to receive a permanent Jarvik-7 heart, but
the Scandinavia news media has reported he is a 53-year-old
businessman, Leif Stenberg, who is under indictment for alleged tax
fraud.
    ''No date for his discharge has yet been decided,'' Book said, but
he added that volunteers on the hospital staff are to start learning
how to handle the equipment connected with the mechanical heart in
order to help the patient after he is discharged.
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    LONDON (AP) - A colonel in the British Army's elite Special Air
Service regiment has been reprimanded after pleading guilty to six
charges of keeping documents at home in violation of the Official
Secrets Act.
    Col. Richard Lea, 51, kept more than 150 documents at home in
violation of the law, according to charges read before a five-judge
court-martial at London's Chelsea Barracks. All but 15 minutes of the
eight-hour hearing took place in closed session Monday.
    The Daily Star newspaper reported Monday that the documents related
to Lea's service with the SAS in Northern Ireland. The officer led
missions against the Irish Republican Army, the newspaper said.
    None of the documents was leaked to outsiders, said the Daily Star,
which did not say where it got its information.
    
AP-NY-04-30-85 0156EDT
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a060  0545  06 May 85
PM-Cuba-Afghanistan,0268
Guerrillas Claim Cuban Forces Fighting in Afghanistan
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Cuban paratroopers are fighting alongside
Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan and helped execute hundreds of
villagers in a recent attack, according to an Afghan rebel leader.
    Commander Sanagul of the Hazbe Islami guerrilla group, speaking with
reporters Saturday night, said 1,200 Cuban commandos parachuted into
the Qarghaie district in eastern Afghanistan in a raid on 15 villages
on April 21.
    They surrounded the villages, rounded up residents for questioning
and executed 360 of those suspected of supporting the anti-marxist
rebels, said Sanagul, who uses only one name.
    The Cubans, backed by Soviet tanks, shut some villagers inside
buildings and then set the structures on fire, he said. He added that
the invaders burned houses, food stores and crops in the villages to
deny supplies to the guerrillas.
    About 1,500 guerrillas operate in the area, but they could do
nothing against the 80 tanks deployed by the Soviets and the jets and
helicopter gunships supporting the operation, according to the rebel
leader.
    He said his information was based on accounts from survivors who had
fled to Pakistan and from guerrilla units in the area. He was unable
to produce any evidence in the form of equipment or identity papers
from dead soldiers to show they were Cubans, however.
    The guerrillas have claimed in the past that Cuban forces are
fighting in the country.
    The Soviet Union dispatched troops to Afghanistan in late 1979 to
support the Marxist government in its fight against the rebels, and
more than 100,000 Soviet military personnel are operating there now,
according to Western estimates.
    
AP-NY-05-06-85 0843EDT
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