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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

March 15, 1983

A French doctor captured with Afghan rebels began an eight-year jail sentence , Radio Kabul said. A special revolutionary court convicted Philippe Augoyard of spying, twice entering Afghanistan illegally, and helping counterrevolutionaries. He was said to be on a humanitarian medical mission when he was captured.