Tanks in the Soviet Union on Tajbeg Palace began; as planned, president Hafizullah Amin was killed. The Soviet military command at Termez, Uzbek SSR, announced on Radio Kabul that Afghanistan had been liberated from Amin's rule. According to the Soviet Politburo they were complying with the 1978 "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good Neighborliness" and Amin had been "executed by a tribunal for his crimes" by the Afghan Revolutionary Central Committee. That committee then elected as head of government former Deputy Prime Minister Babrak Karmal, and said that it had requested Soviet military assistance. Soviet ground forces, under the command of Marshal Sergei Sokolov, entered
Prime Country Prime Country Prime Country is a 1980s and 1990s country radio channel on Sirius XM Radio channel 58 and DISH Network channel 6058. It is also available on the SiriusXM app for tablets and smart phones, and online. The channel highlights hit country music from the 1980s and 1990s, and will occasionally play 1970's songs. Since the creation of the Y2Kountry channel (57), Prime Country plays far fewer songs from the first decade of the 2000s. Every December, SiriusXM puts its "Country Christmas" format on Channel 58, leaving Prime Country as an internet-only channel without hosts. "Country Christmas" is heard