Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fate Accompli. In Southampton, England, 21-year-old Pakhar Singh told army recruiters that he had hitchhiked 12,000 miles from Malaya through India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland and France to join the British army because he wanted "to see the world...
Without its oil, pouring from the ground at a rate of 1,000,000 barrels a day and earning the nation an estimated $250 million this year, Iran would simply be another semi-arid pastoral and agricultural nation like its neighbor Afghanistan. Without the special qualities of its 19 million people, who have been taught cleverness and patience by history, are generally more devoted to their kinsmen than their nation, and are suspicious of every move by those in power, Iran would be an easier country to govern. For example, Iranian slum dwellers have been known to refuse to move...
...cheap that they could be left behind if necessary when the troops moved on. (The Marine Corps nicknamed the disposable domes "Kleenex houses," called them "the first major basic improvement in mobile military shelters in the past 2,600 years.") The U.S. needed a trade fair building in Afghanistan that could be flown in by DC-4; Fuller provided one that could be assembled in 48 hours. Covered with polyester Fiberglas, geodesic domes proved just the thing for the DEW Line radomes. Says he, with the satisfaction of the man whose mousetrap has at last clicked: "The DEW Line radomes...
Iran's personable Shah publicly proclaimed last week that formation of an "Aryan Confederation"*composed of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan is "under careful study." Comparing the proposed confederation to the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact, the Shah declared: "I am proud that for the first time Persian-speaking nations are forming such a unity-which is aimed at defending their territories against aggression." Since there are only two big powers left in the world, he added, Iran had to join one or the other out of self-defense. Iran's clear choice...
Pakistan's strongman President Iskander Mirza denied that he had ever discussed federation with other nations. In Teheran. Premier Manouchehr Eghbal was more careful: "Iran has no intention of participating in a federation with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate future." Radio Kabul made its answer clear by beating the drum again for an independent "Pakhtoonistan," to include a large slice of West Pakistan...