Word: afghanistan
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...with an audacious mission: to stamp out all heroin and cocaine production worldwide in 10 years. Yeah, sure. But before you sell him short, take note of what he has already done since taking over the U.N. Drug Control Program last September. Responding to reports that opium production in Afghanistan had shot up 25%, he flew to Kandahar and personally persuaded the country's radical Taliban rulers to halt future planting in exchange for help in reconstructing a factory that will provide jobs for impoverished residents. A few weeks ago, the Taliban publicly burned two tons of opium, enough...
...official: Pakistan has followed her neighbor into the nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...
...destruction is not the most appropriate technique. The Gulf War caused significant Iraqi losses, but Hussein remains in office. Some commentators have suggested that the U.S. support an internal rebellion in Iraq and use domestic divisions to bring about a change in leadership. The examples of American involvement in Afghanistan and in Nicaragua indicate that Washington is familiar with using civil war to pursue its policy ends...
...question the sincerity and strength of faith of both the Promise Keepers and the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan? But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Obviously, many of the Promise Keepers members feel castrated. Where do these feelings of impotence come from? Can they stem from the fragmentation of the family, the downgrading and elimination of jobs, employment and retirement insecurity, dependency on wives as co-breadwinners and the polarizing effects brought about by radical feminists who are using their much needed movement to galvanize hatred toward all males? BERNARD WISSER Alkmaar, the Netherlands...
...treatment of women by the ultra-extremist authorities of Afghanistan's Taliban [WORLD, Oct. 13] is among the worst human rights abuses of the century. The U.S. must take some of the blame. We supported the Afghan "freedom fighters" in their war against the Soviet Union. A good start at restitution would be the imposition of sanctions against Afghanistan, the kind that finally toppled South African apartheid. And since the Taliban forbids foreign-aid workers to offer assistance to women, U.N. aid ought to be halted in areas held by this vicious regime. I fear, however, that women are still...