Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal treaty signing, oth er nations are only too eager to join hands and sign, too. Ironically, they are all non-nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R. and Uruguay. In addition, about 50 countries have shown an official "interest" in signing, and presumably will do so soon...
...scene is Afghanistan in 1946, where Russia and the U.S. are vying for influence in a country still ruled in spirit, if not in fact, by the reactionary mullahs. Bands of wolves prowl openly through the unpaved streets of the capital city of Kabul (pronounced cobble). Native women are seldom seen out of doors, and Western women who appear in the bazaar without wearing a veil are attacked and spat upon...
Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Afghanistan, caught between U.S. and Soviet policy...
...have made more than one trip. Dr. Grain says that it will take him four months to recover financially and to catch up on his case load back home, but he is all ready to pack his instruments and go again. "They're setting up a program in Afghanistan," he says. "I'd like to go there...
...century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan to the heart of India, east through Central Asia to the borders of China, west over Egypt and Africa to Spain and southern France. It was an incredible empire-larger than any carved out by Alexander the Great or Imperial Rome...