Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever a foreign visitor sits down in the Kabul office of His Royal Highness Sardar Mohammed Daoud of Afghanistan, he invariably gets a lecture. Its subject: the $700 million in foreign aid Daoud needs for his ambitious five-year economIc plan for mountainous, feudal Afghanistan. "We hope all our friends will participate and that we will get assistance from everywhere," he smiles, lighting an American cigarette with a Russian match, "But if it is not forthcoming in one quarter, we will get it in another...
...eight years since he took over as Prime Minister and shrewd strongman of Afghanistan, Daoud had played the neutralist role cannily enough to keep the money rolling in from both quarters. The Russians built a military and jet airport near Kabul, the capital. The U.S. is just finishing a huge, 10,500-ft. jetport near Kandahar, has started work on other civil airports at Herat, Kunduz and Jalalabad. Russian and U.S. highway gangs compete, in trying to outbuild one another...
...Ahead? Aid to Afghanistan (estimated population: 13,260,000) rates a high priority for both the U.S. and Russia. Only India, Indonesia and the U.A.R. have received more Soviet help. The U.S. has contributed nearly $15 per Afghan in economic aid. The Russians have used their money to build their customary eye-catching projects-a giant silo and a bakery in Kabul, a quick-surfacing job on Kabul's streets-while the U.S. has invested some $50 million in the long-term Helmand Valley irrigation project, where results will come more slowly but ultimately will be of more value...
...Afghanistan's Pashto...
Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of the International Students Office, called the proposal "too small." While Millikan suggested limiting the project to "several thousand" people, Eberly saw an eventual need for several hundred thousand. He noted that Afghanistan hopes to increase its elementary educational facilities from 800 to 12,000 schools by 1980, and that in that nation alone, a teacher training program could effectively employ several thousand Americans...