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Some students may prefer Florida, but a Yale junior and a recent graduate spent their Spring break journeying through Pakistan and Soviet occupied Afghanistan where they witnessed fierce battles between Afghani insurgents and Soviet led government troops...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Yalies Visit Afghanistan For Paper | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

Charles Bork. Yale 81, publisher of the right wing Yale Free News, and Gregory D Elia, travelled for two and a half weeks in March through border areas and combat zones taking hundreds of photos and interviewing Afghani guerrillas known as muhajedeen...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Yalies Visit Afghanistan For Paper | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...capital of a country at war with itself, Kabul still has a surprising appearance of normality. Its shops are fall its currency (the afghani) reasonably sound, its merchants eager to do business. The bazaars, in fact, are fall of consumer goods from around the world: tape recorders and calculators from Japan, jeans from the U.S., Harris Tweeds and Swiss chocolates from Europe. Fruit and vegetables and other foodstuffs are also plentiful. Soviet families, however do not venture into public markets for fear of being attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: A Shroud of Insecurity | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Recent travels have shown me that John Wayne's popularity is global [June 25]. In Australia, a farmer asks when the next John Wayne film will come out. In Burma, the Duke's picture hangs in a corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...midst of decay the seeds of rebirth took root. As early as 1744 the fierce Wahhabi movement began preaching the need for a strict return to Islamic practice, and its doctrine slowly spread through the lands of the faith. Sharply countering Moslem fatalism, the 19th century philosopher Al Afghani preached ijtihad (self-exertion), urging Islam to adapt to the currents of change in the modern world. India's Ahmadiyya movement helped revive Islam's long-dormant lust for converts. Twentieth century nationalism gradually brought independence, and a new spirit of confidence, to Islamic countries of Africa and Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faiths: The Moslem World's Struggle to Modernize | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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