Word: afghan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India accused Pakistan of planning an incursion by some 600 heavily-armed guerrillas, including what the Indian authorities call "Afghan mercenaries." (Many Kashmiri Islamic fighters are trained in the Afghan camps run by alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, which were targeted by U.S. missiles last year.) Pakistan denies the charge. Tensions in Kashmir have mounted over the past year, but the air strikes mark a dramatic escalation. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in 52 years, two of them over Kashmir. A festering border dispute could take on new meaning now that both sides have nuclear weapons...
...budget cuts on the state of U.S. intelligence." Convicting Mohamed may depend on being able to prove his involvement in a conspiracy -- after all, simply providing training to Muslim fundamentalists who later turned against the U.S. is a charge that could apply more widely to Washington's Afghan war operation...
...PEOPLE, but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what Mavis Leno looked like. The wife of Jay Leno is an aggressive homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made...
...each day Leno drives to the cramped offices of the Feminist Majority Foundation in her blue BMW in which the red engine light keeps coming on (she says Jay coddles only his vintage cars). She recruited Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (creator of Designing Women) to help grab attention for Afghan women. Together, they battled compassion fatigue to mount a $150- per-head buffet dinner with more than 100 A-list names. Despite Leno's spending 12-hour days on the phone, performers and guests were dropping out days before the March 29 event ("You mean Sally Field's not coming? Well...
...crisis because she played a farmer's wife?) But isn't it better to use your fame for something other than getting a table at Spago Beverly Hills? Mavis has been criticized as misinformed by a tiny but noisy pro-Taliban lobby, whose frequent spokesperson is Laili Helms, the Afghan-born daughter-in-law of former CIA chief Richard Helms. Its protest outside the party was menacing enough so that Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls) was too shaken to perform. Helms, who lives freely in a New Jersey suburb, is convinced the Taliban is good for Afghanistan and that life is better...