Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruler of Afghanistan is a man of many accomplishments. At 51, Mohammed Zahir Shah can snag the wiliest trout in the Hindu Kush, swoop down a ski slope at 60 m.p.h., or drop a brace of partridge as deftly as a skeet cham pion. He rides like Lochinvar, golfs near par on any course, and betweentimes collects rare books and Oriental art. On his experimental farm outside the ancient capital of Kabul, he raises mutant grapes, outsize apricots, and dairy cattle that can withstand the rigors of Afghan altitude with milky aplomb. But as one of his courtiers puts...
...games and grew vegetables. In 1953 Zahir Shah's cousin, Prince Mohammed Daoud, took over and continued the tough stuff. Secret police snooped everywhere; the press was heavily censored. After Daoud quarreled with his finance minister, that official and his family disappeared. Balding, haughty and highhanded, Daoud alienated Afghanistan's slowly developing intellectual class and won the distaste-if not outright dislike-of the nation's 13 million poverty-stricken subjects...
Pakistan was making a serious reappraisal of all its international relationships. Close ties were knit with Turkey and Iran, two Moslem neighbors and fellow members of CENTO. A long and dreary border scuffle with Afghanistan was partially resolved, and Pakistan ended a two-year closing of the Afghan frontier...
...passed by Congress and an attempt was made to gather all the proliferating economic and military assistance plans into one coordinated program. So many administrators came and went that nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign aid from outright grants to development loans and investments. President Kennedy in 1961 created the Agency for International Development (AID) as a kind...
...keep the U.S. informed of the "true facts" about Viet Nam. Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson made a speech in Philadelphia urging the U.S. to call a temporary halt in bombing North Viet Nam. And from a 17-nation conference in Belgrade, with countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zambia, came still another appeal for peace negotiations...