Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petition condemns the $5 million bail being set for Leary, the highest ever given a U.S. citizen. Leary was recently returned to the U.S. from Afghanistan after having escaped from a minimum security prison while serving a 20 year prison term for possession of marijuana...
...further complicate matters, Pathan tribesmen would like to create a new state within Pakistan to be called Pushtunistan (Pathan Nation). They have been getting help and support from Pathans in neighboring Afghanistan. Adding to the ferment and intrigue, both the P.P.P. and the N.A.P. have organized large paramilitary groups to protect what each considers to be its own turf...
...Prodigal returned: Timothy Leary, 52, the former Harvard lecturer and proponent of high living (via LSD and other drugs) who sneaked out of a California prison in 1970 and has been trying to find a more tolerant homeland ever since. Tossed out of Afghanistan, Leary was collared by U.S. narcs who hustled him back to Los Angeles. Tagging along was his British traveling companion Joanna Harcourt-Smith, 26, who announced: "I'm here to free him. Love is what it takes." Said Leary in more practical tones, "I'm going to get a lawyer...
Moreover, there is a growing realization that drug traffickers can draw on ample surpluses in the total worldwide illicit production of opium-1,200 tons last year, enough to supply the U.S. market many times over. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan grow some 360 tons of illegal opium each year, most of which at present goes to Iran. The "Golden Triangle" of Burma, Thailand and Laos is the largest single opium-producing area (700 tons a year). Dealers there have been supplying U.S. troops in South Viet Nam, and it is open to question, the report notes, whether they will accept...
...Jews. The Sephardim developed into a community in medieval Spain, where their achievements in arts, government and letters made them the most influential Jewish community of the Diaspora until their expulsion in 1492. Their language, Ladino, reflects their Spanish roots. The Oriental Jews are scattered from North Africa to Afghanistan, usually speaking Jewish varieties of Arabic or Persian, and in the case of one group, Aramaic...