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Show Soviet Purge Will Strip Veil From Afghan Women MOSCOW, Sept. 10 ( Ths Soviet's purge of "schemers' and wreckers" today reached the faraway far-away Afghanistan frontier. There, It was charged, Mohammedan women still are forced to hide their faces behind veils. This is contrary to soviet ideas on the emancipation of women. Pravda. official communist party par-ty organ at Moscow, listed many new offenses in the purge, punctuated punc-tuated in recent weeks by speedy I ' trials and firing squads. In the great cotton belt of Tadshikistan the campaign against state enemies reached the last of the 11 socialist republics. There. Pravda charged, "priests and kulaks" continue Mohammedan Mohamme-dan practices, including the veil for women. School funds have been misused, mis-used, Pravda said, and thousands of peasants after two years' schooling are still unable to write their names. |