Word: afghanistan
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...pictures on these pages show a city being ground to dust. This is Kabul today, and no city has suffered more destruction in the '90s than the capital of Afghanistan. Along with the demise of the cold war, the departure of the Soviets in 1989 ended much of the interest of the U.S. and other outsiders. Shortly afterward, vicious, sustained civil war broke out. In the years since, five different armies have fought in Kabul's streets, battling from house to house, killing 45,000 in one six-month period. Jahannam, says the Koran, is a hellish place of "harrowing...
JAMES NACHTWEY is one of those people who go looking for trouble--in war zones, through famines and global catastrophes--and then capture in photographs what he calls the "human bond" between his subjects and the readers back home. For this week's issue he traveled to Afghanistan because, he says, "I thought it had dropped out of America's consciousness." Driving around Kabul in a beat-up Toyota taxi, he was astounded by the devastation Afghanistan's long civil war has wrought on its capital. "More has to be done about the humanitarian situation," says Nachtwey. "Those people should...
...Naples were arrested as they arrived at the Rome airport with 6 kg of Turkish heroin, expecting, as military personnel, not to be searched by customs. The sailors turned out to be couriers for Nigerians plying the Golden Crescent heroin trail. That route begins in the opium fields of Afghanistan, runs through refineries in Turkey and then the wholesaling hubs of Italy and terminates in needle parks throughout Western Europe...
Leary spent much of the next 20 years of his life on the lam. Arrested for marijuana possession, he escaped from the California Men's Colony in 1970, only to be recaptured in 1973 in Afghanistan...
...signed a decree giving a $5 billion subsidy to farmers and has said commercial electricity rates will be cut in half. Those big items are ruinous enough, but Yeltsin's aversion to fiscal sanity goes further. In Yaroslavl, for example, he pledged $700,000 to house veterans of the Afghanistan war, $10,000 to help with the housekeeping costs at a convent of the Russian Orthodox Church, $20,000 to build a Muslim cultural center and $2 million for new barracks at a military college...