The World - News from Nov. 21, 1988

The Afghan government said it has captured three U.S. spies, and Pakistan claimed it shot down an Afghan military plane over its territory. An official Radio Kabul broadcast monitored in Islamabad, Pakistan, said an Afghan national was imprisoned along with the three American spies. The state-run radio did not say where or when the unidentified individuals were captured. A Western diplomat dismissed the report, saying there are no U.S. agents in Afghanistan. The aircraft was shot down near the border town of Parachinar, a Defense Ministry spokesman said in a statement to the Associated Press of Pakistan news agency.