Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legitimized the de facto Soviet sovereignty over the Kushk district, a remote corner of the world where Afghanistan, Iran and the U.S.S.R. meet among the high pastures, vast pistachio groves and wild tribesmen who live around the ancient Oxus River.* The treaty just negotiated between Moscow and Kabul scraps two 1921 clauses which granted the people of Kushk the right to choose their own masters by plebiscite, and stipulated Russian financial and material aid to Afghanistan...
...Russians can build a dam on the Murghab River, to irrigate the barren steppes of the neighboring Turkmen Soviet Republic. It also consolidates Russia's hold on the strategically important Trans-Caspian Railroad, a branch of which ends at Kushka, near Afghan and Iranian oil. In return, Afghanistan got a couple of small islands...
...pocket a couple of letters from General MacArthur-and released them to the press. Miller, once an able, prosperous physician, owned a hospital in Kimball until 1934, when he lost both his legs in a hunting accident. He traveled every country in the world but three (Turkey, Afghanistan, Greece), and then took up politics. But politics is no easy science; Dr. Miller did not seem aware of what he had now done. He had met the General twice-once in Nebraska and once in Europe...
...Oriental Club at Harvard, seeking to further understanding between Eastern and Western countries, will present a recital of Oriental music on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Harvard and Radcliffe students from China, India, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, and perhaps Afghanistan will take part in demonstrating the music of their homelands...
...Pola Negri's doctor," a "Rumanian diplomat," an "Army flyer," a "lawyer," three other U.S. "Naval officers" (various ranks), a "Brooklyn politician," and a "Serbian diplomat." In this 1921 picture, Impersonator Stephen Weinberg lined up on the White House lawn to present Princess Fatima (center), Sultana of Kakul, Afghanistan, to President Warren G. Harding. Last week fast-talking Stephen Weinberg, who has pretended for 30 years to be assorted fascinating people, was arrested again. This time the charge was not playacting, but dramatic coaching. The FBI said Weinberg had been teaching prospective draft dodgers how to fake...