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...Wolesi Jirga, demanding Yusuf's 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...
...royalties to drag the once backward country from the 10th into the 20th century. Without collecting a dinar of taxes from Kuwaitis, he wiped out unemployment in a land of underfed illiterates, created an elaborate school system and the world's most lavish welfare state, rebuilt the mud brick capital city of Kuwait into a tidy little air-conditioned marvel of modern office buildings and apartments and tree-lined boulevards...
...world's major financial powers; its millions on deposit in London are a principal prop for the hard-pressed British pound. While his people enjoyed free education, medical care and telephone service plus air-conditioned homes for as little as $1.40 a month, Abdullah lived in a mud-walled house, dressed and ate simply. On his deathbed, too weak to speak, he gestured for a writing pad and scrawled his last wish in shaky Arabic: "Carry on in the most enlightened...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 19--There was neither rain nor mud here today, but the varsity soccer team repeated last week's sorry performance against Brown anyway and lost to Yale...
There was neither rain nor mud here yesterday, but the varsity soccer team repeated last weeks sorry performance against Brown anyway, and lost to Yale...