Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flurry of indignation, 18 African states, plus Cambodia, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, had called on the Council to condemn Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe and his Western allies for last month's U.S.-Belgian rescue operations at Stanleyville. Tshombe's representatives countered by charging that Algeria, Ghana, Egypt and the Sudan were aiding the rebel "government" of Christophe Gbenye...
...what they called, with a typical talent for uninspiring nomenclature, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (German Development Service). Applications poured in by the thousands, and 78 volunteers have already completed the intensive twelve-week training course. They are now training workers at an auto plant in Libya, teaching at trade schools in Afghanistan and working with farmers in India. Last week 23 German volunteers flew into Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, to begin building 5,000 new apartments in a slum-clearance project...
...Middle and Far East for five years, then switched to photography in 1957 "because you can't have any fun at LIFE without a camera," produced such memorable picture essays as the 14-page color spread that retraced Alexander the Great's route of conquest through Afghanistan; of injuries sustained when he lost his footing while taking photographs from a high ledge in the Himalayas; near Tezpur, India...
Food & Factories. Even more alarming to the economists is the fact that population is growing five times as fast as food production in Asia. The output of food is actually dropping in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Iran and Nepal. The average Asian eats little more than he did in 1939, and hunger is a constant gnawing companion of about one in four. At present rates, food output in the area will rise only 5% during the next decade, but the U.N. figures that it must increase about 60% if Asians are to eat enough...
Viewed with the naked eye or the world's biggest telescope, the moon looks flat. Because of its great distance, the sharpest irregularities on its surface show only because of the shadows that they cast in slanting sunlight. But the moon is more rugged than Afghanistan; when earthly astronauts land there, they will need the best possible contour maps to guide them through the precipitous mountains that hide just over the lunar horizon. Last week NASA's moon pioneers were beginning to plot their first explorations, using an entirely new set of maps made by the Army Corps...