Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacrilege! Infamy! Libel!" I slashed the teacup to the floor. "Good grief, Holmes! Even during those lonely days in Afghanistan, I never so much as glanced at a subaltern...
...support a boycott of GM drew about 50 people to the steps of Mem Church. A man in Sao Paolo, Brazil, began serving a prison term for biting his pet dog to death. The national government of Tannu Tuva dissolved itself sine die. The City Fathers of Kabul, Afghanistan, appropriated 500 coppers to build two cupolas with minarets. And at his dacha in the Ukraine, Nikita S. Krushchev passed a quiet afternoon, cursing his luck...
...quarantine station where it was first identified). The strain originated more than 30 years ago in the highlands of Indonesia's Celebes Islands. In recent years the disease has spread north to the Korean peninsula and west along the Southeast Asian mainland. After passing through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, it became a raging epidemic in Iran and Iraq by 1965. There the disease seemed to mark time-at least until a month or so ago, when it resumed its westward march...
...sudden development. It started in Indonesia in 1935, was confined there for nearly three decades before jumping to the mainland in 1961. Then it spread rapidly across Southeast Asia and into Taiwan and Korea. By 1964, it was on the increase in Pakistan and India, moving into Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. A year later it struck the Iranian town of Rasht on the South Shore of the Caspian Sea. From there, it jumped to Astrakhan, a Soviet city of 500,000. Now it has burst out in two more areas: Alexandria and Port Said and-after a visit...
...importer of rice, now has such a huge surplus that one company has taken to spraying rice grains out of pressurized nozzles in order to clean the blades of air-cooling fans. Other countries feeling the impact of the Green Revolution are Turkey, Malaysia, Burma, Indonesia, South Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Brazil and Paraguay...