Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistan's ancient quarrels with India and Afghanistan continue. Moreover, Bhutto's hope of a return to close relations with Bangladesh following the August assassination of President Sheik Mujibur Rahman was shattered by a series of coups and countercoups (TIME, Aug. 25), even though Islamabad...
...Asia's southern tier, from Afghanistan to Indonesia, is affected by the outbreak. But malaria has struck hardest at the Indian subcontinent. India, which cut malaria cases from a 1947 high of 75 million to only 125,000 by 1965, expects to record 4 million this year. Pakistan, which then included Bangladesh, had reduced its annual toll from tens of millions to only 9,500 in 1961, estimates 10 million cases in 1975. Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), which once had 2.5 million cases per year, counted only 16 victims in 1963. So far in 1975, however, it has recorded...
...education are classified as nonpedagogical: they do not teach. Many teachers aspire to administrative ranks where the work is easier, the pay is higher, and bothersome students are remote. Says Mary McAulay, a veteran teacher: "If 110 Livingston Street [headquarters of the board of education] were moved to Afghanistan, the classroom teacher would be unaffected...
...Rotel catalog offers 92 different itineraries, ranging from one-weel dashes from Germany to Italy, France Spain or England to month-long trek across the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Thailand and Malaysia, Australia, South America and the U.S When Peking permits, Rotel will probably offer 30-day tours of mainland China for around $2,000. At prices ranging from about $100 a day for a seven day trip to Rome and Assisi to $2,00( for a 40-day Australian marathon, Rotels are probably the cheapest way available anywhere to see the world...
John Kunst, then 25, was shot dead; David, with a bullet hole in one lung, flew home to Waseca to recuperate for three months. When he returned to Afghanistan to resume the journey, his companion was his other brother Peter, now 29. Refused per mission to cross China, the Kunsts trudged to Calcutta, then detoured to Australia...