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Show - t - . ' V k - 4 ' ' r- - Page 9 THE DESERET SAMPLER, Friday, April 11, 1980 WEEKDAYS 9:30 to 8 SATURDAY 9 to G SUNDAY 11 toS NEWU.S POLICIES FACTS AND FIGURES ANNOUNCED In a televised address to the nation on January 4, 1980, President Jimmy Carter set forth new guidelines for this countrys policies toward the U.S.S.R. as a result of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan. The new policies include a limited embargo on grain shipments to the Russians. barring the sales of high technology and other strategic items until further notice, and deferring cultural exchanges between the two nations. Summing up the Administration's new policies, President Carter said: "Neither the United States nor any other nation which is committed to world peace and stability can continue to do business as usual with the Soviet Union." an area of approximately 260,000 square miles, Afghanistan compares in size with the State of Texas. It is a landlocked country with borders on the U.S.S.R:, Iran, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China. Mountains and arid deserts comprise the majority of the land and are interspersed by small, fertile valleys. The capital city is Kabul. Other major cities Kandahar; Herat, and Geography: With Mazar-e-Shari- f. People: From centuries astride the trade and invasion routes from central Asia into the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Afghanistan has an ethnically mixed population. An estimated 18-2- 0 million citizens share the three major languages Afghan Persian (Dari), Pushtu the language of the largest ethnic group and Turki. It is a Muslim nation in which the Koran plays an important role in daily life and forms the basis for the religious and judicial codes. Clerics are opinion-mouldeand serve as legal . arbiters and teachers. Approximately 90 percent of the Afghanis are members of the Sunni sect of Islam; 10 percent follow the Shia branch. Government: Afghanistan has had a series of. governments since the mid-19- 73 military coup which overthrew the limited monarchy, suspended the Constitution, and.abolished the Shura (Parliament). The coup's leaders were in turn overthrown in April 1978, In December 1979 Russian troops invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the government of Hafizullah Amin and install in his place a Soviet puppet. Babrak Karmal. By 1980 an estimated 50,000 Russian troops were in control of major population centers in the country. To complete the occupation quickly, they used the highways built for the Afghanis as part of the Russian aid programs of the 1970s. feudal society in Economy: Basically a which more than 70 percent of the population has little or no contact with the central government, Afghanistan's largest export is natural gas to the U.S.S.R. Russia has given the. .5 billion in economic aid and : country an estimated constructed many of. the highways which were used in the invasion. rs Eureka! 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