Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin chain of defense positions across the Middle East's northern perimeter, to be built piece by piece in separate pacts between the U.S. and the states of Pakistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Later, if Iran gets hold of itself internally, it would become another link. So would Afghanistan...
...addition to Pakistan and Indonesia, the abstentious were: afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and Yugoslavia. El Salvador and Lebanon were absent...
...learn something about these TIME readers, who they are and how they live and work, questionnaires were sent to 23 countries ranging from Japan to Fiji, from Australia to Afghanistan...
...halves separated by 1100 miles, condemned by partition to hold a 4,000-mile frontier against Russia, China, Burma, Afghanistan, Iran and India, Pakistan makes sense as a nation only because it feels itself a nation. Its cocksureness could set a subcontinent on fire. Yet one thing seems certain: now that they have a country of their own, Pakistan's Moslems will defend it to the last gasp...
...else, you newspapermen already know everything . . . There s no subject on which you don't consider yourselves experts. You can rear back any time of the day or night and give out the very last word on the exploding of the hydrogen bombs, on old tribal customs in Afghanistan . . . on the making of cheese or women . . . on religion, politics, music, art, football, yoga-anything . . . Mark even knows how to get every place he's going . . . I've driven miles and miles in the wrong direction, all the time urging him to stop and inquire...