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Round was taken off body of USSR soldier in Afghanistan RHODESIA'S SOF INTERVIEWS "NO WIN" WAR 22 JOHN MILIUS 56 L,.H. "Mike" Williams N.E. MacDougald Rhodesian brass learns pol itics before war's Tinseltown maverick discusses heroes, politics, end. guns-and movie_s. SEPTEM BER/1980 SAS DARES &WINS 26 VOL. 5, NO. 9 Doug Campbell When the talking stopped and the shooting started, the SAS moved in. IN CUBAN WATERS 30 N.E. MacDougald SOF Staffer's eye-witness report of Cuban ex· odus. · AMERICAN WITH A MISSION 36 Tony Bliss, Jr. Arizonan fights Red Cross for medicine in Cam· bodia. ASSIGNMENT Page 42 AFGHANISTAN 42 Galen L. Geer SOF scoops CIA in Afghanistan. Bulletin Board . 6 Combat Pistolcraft . 8 FLAK . ... .. ...... ...... 10 FLIGHT OF THE Editorial . ........· . .. .... 20 WHITE EAGLES 54 Classifieds ....... .. ... 91 Dana K. Drenkowski I American meres stymie Bolshevik advanc~ in Poland's 1919·20 war with Russia. 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