Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy of the journey occurred when the brothers reached Afghanistan two years ago. Walking near Kabul, the pair were attacked by bandits who had read in a local newspaper that they were collecting money for UNICEF along the way. Actually, they had been collecting only pledges (now totaling $10,000, Kunst claims), not cash, and had only a few dollars...
...could scarcely be otherwise, given the political and economic realities. Indeed, the seabed makes strange politics; within the general framework of rich v. poor nations at Caracas, new and complicated alliances have appeared. Who would believe a bloc including Switzerland, Bolivia, Afghanistan and Singapore, for example? Yet they have found common cause because they are either landlocked or have extremely narrow continental shelves, and they want a share of the resources of the seas. Nations with broad shelves -among them India, Argentina and Canada-are united in pressing for as big a territorial sea as possible. Archipelagic states like Indonesia...
...clock on the morning of May 1, 1960, my telephone rang. I picked up the receiver, and the voice on the other end said, "Minister of Defense Marshal Rodion Malinovsky reporting." He went on to tell me that an American U-2 reconnaissance plane had crossed the border of Afghanistan into Soviet airspace and was flying toward Sverdlovsk. I replied that it was up to him to shoot down the plane by whatever means he could. Malinovsky said he'd already given the order, adding "If our antiaircraft units can just keep their eyes open and stop yawning long...
...These columns are bracketed by serious financial comment, offbeat personality profiles and flights of pop sociology. In a given week, the Journal's left-hand column will take up subjects as diverse as the trend toward naming rival products in advertising, and the not-quite-emerging nation of Afghanistan (Headline: DO THE RUSSIANS COVET AFGHANISTAN? IF SO, IT'S HARD TO FIGURE...
...expelling nation put the fugitive forcefully aboard "the next direct ship." In 1930 New York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary was in Kabul, Afghan authorities did some complex bureaucratic footwork that left him with no alternative to climbing onto a U.S.-bound plane. He is now serving the balance of his one-to ten-year sentence for marijuana possession in California...