Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shopping night and many housewives were downtown. Over on the river front, a gang of longshoremen worked late. From twelve railroad cars they were unloading a deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo would be ferried out to a freighter...
From this tough base Maclean set out to enjoy himself. Between 1937 and 1939, dressed in an old suit and carrying a rucksack, he explored thousands of miles of the Soviet Union, all the way from the Urals to the borders of Chinese Sinkiang and Afghanistan. Maclean broke into many a forbidden area by the simple expedient of quietly climbing aboard the appropriate train. Provincial units of the NKVD were often too bewildered by Maclean's sudden appearances to know just what to do about him. When they put agents on his trail, Maclean went complacently about his sightseeing...
...Tashkent, near Afghanistan in West Asia, collective farmers bought 7,000 sewing machines...
...Accused. Lattimore was in Afghanistan last week on a U.N. mission. As the State Department promptly pointed out, he had been employed by State only once, five years ago, when for four months he "was associated with a mission outside the U.S." - the Pauley reparations mission in Japan. Occasionally, State conceded, he had also been called in as an adviser on Far Eastern affairs...