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...Afghans have been depending on the Russians for essential supplies and increasing economic aid since last July, when Pakistan shut down the Khyber Pass over a territorial dispute with Afghanistan. But the family that governs Afghanistan (through King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his strong-willed brother-in-law, Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan) took special precautions against too conspicuous a welcome to the northerners. Few flags or banners were hung in Kabul's streets. The public was not told of the coming visit, and the government did not even confide to foreign embassies what day the Russians would...
...time of the capture, Potter was touring through the Middle East with Fereydoun Ala, the son of the Iranian Prime Minister, and his brother-in-law, Narcy Firouz. Driving through Iran in September, natives told them about a herd of Dziggetais, the onager's Persian name. When the travelers saw a group of 30, they dashed in pursuit in a jeep. Potter said that the tactics used were to drive along side one of the running animals and then, "Lean out, hug him around the neck, and let him pull you out. He soon tires. Then you threw...
...Carson, Milton Berle and Martha Raye. The two men moved into Hiken's private office, a coldwater, off-Broadway flat on Manhattan's West Side, and set to work. They considered and discarded dozens of formats. For a while. Phil was going to play a busybody brother-in-law; then they switched to making him the manager of a minor-league baseball team; then the proprietor of a combined gymnasium and rehearsal hall. Silvers says: "When Nat first thought of this Army thing, I didn't like it. But it had one major quality - it wasn...
Unlike her husband, Maggie O'Connor went in for petty capers. Whenever the cupboard was bare, she would call two or three of Bobby's cronies to a garage owned by her brother-in-law (who also has a record), and they would go off to rob a drugstore or some small, out-of-the-way shop. Since last June, according to Chicago police, Maggie has probably had a hand in some 100 holdups, has been positively linked to 30. Her working clothes usually included a babushka and, oftentimes, adhesive tape over the five moles...
Nobody was happy over the way things were going. French prestige abroad was suffering one defeat after another. First there was the massive repudiation by Saar voters of France's ten-year rule. Snorted Deputy Jacques Vendrous, De Gaulle's brother-in-law: "France played cards while the Saar was lost." Deputies were also nettled at South Viet Nam's summary rejection of French Puppet Bao Dai, and shocked by the sudden defection of El Glaoui, France's oldest Moroccan ally. Yet none of these reverses vexed the touchy Deputies as much as Edgar Faure...