Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beekeepers & Fish Hatchers. Vaughn takes over the Peace Corps as it approaches its fifth birthday. Since its first year, when there were 526 volunteers in 13 countries, the corps has grown apace, now has 10,380 volunteers at work in 46 countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela. Its annual appropriation has risen from $30 million to this year's $114.1 million. Fifty percent of the Corpsmen are teachers, the rest are involved in rural and urban-community development, health projects, agriculture and public works...
That is just what the U.S. would like to see. Afghanistan has always been a buffer between Russia and the Indian subcontinent. As such, it must remain neutral. American aid ($300 million v. Russia's $700 million) is dedicated to promoting that neutrality-and to building democracy as well...
Elections & Flowers. Most important, the new constitution provided for fresh elections. When they were held last September, every seat in the Wolesi Jirga was contested-in some cases by as many as twelve candidates-and 45% of Afghanistan's eligible voters (everybody above 20) turned out. The resulting legislature included the widest array ever of Afghans: from doctors to shepherds, from liberal lawyers to ultra-conservative mullahs (Moslem teachers), as well as four women and six former political prisoners...
...ouster. Street demonstrations followed, and the police fired into the crowd, killing at least three. The King secured Yusuf's resignation and in his place appointed Mohammed Hashim Maiwandwal, 46, a lanky, Lincolnesque liberal who was born in a three-room mud hut and rose to prominence as Afghanistan's ambassador to Washington, London and Karachi. Maiwandwal quickly dashed off to the university and calmed the irate students. They carried him away in a heap of flowers...
Neither Maiwandwal nor his King believes that democracy will come easily to Afghanistan. In a nation where violence is still the code (two of Zahir...