NEWS
January 30, 1993 | CAREY GOLDBERG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Gold-toothed Sangak Safarov has eight children and, at 65, is waiting for the birth of his ninth. He started late because he spent most of his adult life in prison. And he has, by his own estimate, 8,000 fighters at his command, perhaps the decisive force in the civil warfare afflicting the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Tajikistan has a government elected by its Parliament; it has an Interior Ministry and a Security Ministry and mayors.