1986 in Afghanistan resigns from the largely ceremonial post of president of the Revolutionary Council. He is succeeded on November 24 by Haji Mohammad Chamkani, formerly first vice-president and a non-PDPA member. An extraordinary plenum of the PDPA Central Committee approves a policy of national reconciliation, involving negotiations with opposition groups, and the proposed formation of a coalition government of national unity. A cabinet reshuffle sees the elevation of Najibullah supporters Abdul Wakil and Mohammad Rafi to the posts of foreign minister and defense minister, respectively. Najibullah visits the U.S.S.R. to discuss prospects for ending the conflict in Afghanistan. 1986 in Afghanistan The
George M. Post until 1910, when Post again practiced alone. In 1912, he designed the Salem Carnegie library, which serves today as Willamette University's Oregon Civic Justice Center. In 1917, Post moved to Portland, joining Morris H. Whitehouse's firm. When the State of Oregon began licensing architects in 1919, the Oregon Board of Architect Examiners issued him license No. 1 under a grandfather clause. Post served as the board's secretary until 1926. He left the Whitehouse firm in 1923. Post died on January 21, 1966 in Portland, aged 82, leaving a wife, Eliza, and a daughter. George M. Post George Morrison Post (November