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...Held a state luncheon for visiting Sardar Mohammed Daoud, fierce-eyed, austere Prime Minister of neutral Afghanistan, while the U.S. firmed up plans to give Afghanistan $26 million more in aid. The money will be used to fix the roads so that the U.S.S.R.'s landlocked southern neighbor can ship its Persian lamb pelts to free-world markets...
...motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint communique that, to the State Department's pleased surprise, included Afghan approval of the U.S.'s Middle East objectives: economic growth and national independence...
Undermined Spirit. From Cairo Herbert Norman cabled Pearson thanking him for his support. He began to spend long hours in his study writing: then he would summon his Nubian servant, Mohammed Daoud. and ask him to burn the writings in the ambassador's presence. In the pocket of his suit when he died, he left two scrawled notes. One said: "I have no option. I must kill myself because I live without hope." Another, to his wife, said: "I kiss your feet and beg you to forgive me for what I am doing...
...mountainous northern approaches. Last week, only nine years after the British turned over the Khyber's defenses to the new and troubled state of Pakistan, the long-feared penetration of Russian military influence into Afghanistan was announced as a fact. In Kabul, Afghanistan's Strongman Mohammed Daoud Khan, who last winter accepted a $100 million economic credit from the touring Soviet twins, Bulganin and Khrushchev, announced that his government had signed an agreement with the Soviet Union "for strengthening Afghanistan's defenses." The whole deal, he added, was made "without any political strings attached...
Guns for Sale. In New Delhi, Daoud's remarks were taken with a grain of sodium chloride. The city buzzed with the news that an Afghan arms-buying mission would soon be on the way to Moscow, and that large quantities of Soviet arms would get into the hands of Afghanistan's border-raiding Pathan tribesmen. Thus the Soviet Traveling Salesmen sought to punish the West's good friend Pakistan. Having endorsed India's claims to Kashmir (disputed by Pakistan), they now encouraged the Afghans' claim to northern territories of West Pakistan...