Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Excellency Najib-Ullah, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States, paid a one day visit to the University yesterday...
Najib-Ullah, who was minister of education in Afghanistan from 1946-49, said that the purpose of his visit was both to gain new ideas about education and to see a University that he had known about from his youth...
...activities here included talking with University officials, visiting a seminar and speaking on Afghanistan foreign policy...
...talk at Littauer last night he pointed out that Afghanistan was a small state, with a population of 12 million, surrounded by much greater powers. He explained that this forced his country to follow a policy of neutrality to avoid being swallowed up by one or the other of the great powers...
Neither the big businessman in Boston nor the worker in Seattle seemed to realize that only a puny portion of foreign aid is for genuine economic assistance (in the sense of "plows for Afghanistan"). In the $3.8 billion mutual security budget for the current fiscal year, for example, only $385 million is listed for such purposes. Nearly all the rest goes for military aid and "defense support" and, as such, is more defense than aid. No one said much about cutting defense. Who wants to be against strength...