CBS Evening News - 1980-01-11
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[0:03] This is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:06] Kankite.
[0:07] >> Good evening. The Carter administration
[0:09] today added some charges of atrocities
[0:12] in Afghanistan to its condemnation of
[0:14] the Soviet invasion there. Robert
[0:16] Perpoint reports. The Carter
[0:18] administration opened a new front today
[0:20] in its efforts to bring world opinion to
[0:22] bear against the Soviet invasion of
[0:24] Afghanistan, charging that Soviet firing
[0:27] squads are executing daily about two
[0:30] dozen Afghan political, religious, and
[0:32] military leaders. A high administration
[0:35] official who refused to allow either his
[0:37] name or workplace to be identified was
[0:40] the source of the charge. He told
[0:42] reporters that some 300 Afghans have
[0:45] been shot during the past two weeks at
[0:48] an execution grounds outside a major
[0:50] city in Afghanistan. He also refused to
[0:53] name the city, apparently in an effort
[0:55] to protect US intelligence sources. But
[0:58] the American official did claim that
[1:00] some of the Afghans killed by the
[1:02] Russians came from the Puly Sharky
[1:04] prison outside Kbble where earlier this
[1:07] week local officials made a show for
[1:09] Western journalists of releasing some
[1:11] political prisoners. The administration
[1:14] official also claimed to have
[1:16] information from what was called a
[1:18] variety of sources in which we have
[1:19] confidence to the effect that from 900
[1:22] to,200 Soviet soldiers have been killed
[1:25] or wounded during the recent fighting in
[1:27] Afghanistan.
[1:29] The source could not break down this
[1:30] total precisely but in guerilla warfare
[1:33] that would normally indicate about 150
[1:35] Russians have died since the invasio