Correspondent and host Harry Ellis in Washington DC broadcasts a bulletin about the refugee situation in Afghanistan. Report opens with flashback scenes from December 1979 as Soviet aircraft bomb Afghanistan territory. Soviet helicopter MI-24 flies overhead. Situation in Afghanistan over the years since the invasion forces its people to leave their country. Current day scenes of Afghan refugees camped on land in Pakistan. Doctor checks the Afghan patients. Epitaphs of Afghanis who could not survive. Afghan Refugees work in Pakistan. Afghan laborer breaks stones and another laborer fills grain into containers and then into sacks. Afghan Aid Medical Clinic where volunteer doctors give free treatment to Afghan Refugees. Doctor and nurses attend to the patients. Afghan Refugees camped in Afghanistan. Man watches over a grazing herd of sheep. Young Afghani children at a village school in Afghanistan.
Interview hosted by Harry Ellis, with reporter from Oslo joining via telephone. Guests are U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the Soviet resistance getting stronger in Afghanistan. U.S. Senator Jim Sasser states that Soviet troops are reluctant to leave and they should withdraw from Afghanistan.
Interview hosted by Harry Ellis, with reporter from Madrid joining via telephone. Guests are U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss that Soviet Union should be persuaded to withdraw from Afghanistan. And that Afghanistan is a separate country and it has a right to form its own government and follow its own religion and culture.
Interview hosted by Harry Ellis, with reporter from Oslo joining via telephone. Guests are U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. The men discuss the situation in Afghanistan stating the condition and morale of Afghan Refugees. Measures taken by United States and Pakistan to render help to Afghan Refugees. They further discuss Soviet resistance getting stronger in Afghanistan.
Interview hosted by Harry Ellis in Washington DC, with reporter from Madrid joining via telephone. Guests are U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Arnold L Raphel states that Afghanis will negotiate only after the Soviet troops withdraw and Afghan Refugees return to Afghanistan. He further says that the 1980 Hostage Rescue Mission was not to put pressure on Afghanistan.
Interview hosted by Harry Ellis, with reporter from London joining via telephone. Guest U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.They discuss United States helping Afghan resistance to get better weaponry and Anti Aircraft Missiles. Arnold L Raphel states that the Soviet Union shall consider the situation in Afghanistan as there is pressure from the United States and other international organizations to withdraw from Afghanistan.