Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court of St. James's, but probably will draw a post somewhat less prestigious. J. Graham ("Jeff") Parsons, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, is hoping for the big job in Tokyo. Ambassador Henry Byroade, who was exiled from Egypt, first to South Africa and then to Afghanistan, by John Foster Dulles (he was a casualty in the U.S. policy switch on Nasser's Aswan Dam project), is expected to do better under the new Administration. And State's top information job, now held by Assistant Secretary Andrew Berding, is in for fierce competition. Favorite candidate among...
...center, but a negative one, having little in common except neutrality. Some, like Togo, Gabon and Congo, are just emerging from the jungle. Others, like India and Thailand and Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
...comrade-in-arms of the late great Kemal Ataturk, was charged with treason for ruling dictatorially in violation of the Turkish constitution. But the army regime was first anxious to destroy whatever prestige Bayar still has, and it began with an accusation astonishingly petty. On a state visit to Afghanistan, Bayar had received an Afghan hound as a present from the King. He brought it back to Turkey and put it into the Ankara zoo. Subsequently, says the prosecution, he arranged with Agriculture Minister Nedim Okmen, who had charge of the zoo. for the government...
Colorfully and tendentiously described by such angry hotshot reporters as Baltimore's H.L. Mencken-who called Bryan "a tin-pot pope" and lamented that Darrow might as well be "bawling [his eloquence] up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan"-the monkey trial made screamlines all over the U.S. and Europe. Bryan and Darrow put on a spectacular sideshow, bellowing like snake-oil salesmen, crassly subverting judge, jury and the rules of evidence as they addressed their elocution to the larger court of public opinion. "We have the purpose," Darrow thundered, "of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling...
...proper courting gift for a Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...