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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...
...Exports increased 12%, even though wheat, a major export in past years, was hard to sell in 1955. Such new export items as uranium, iron ore and oil more than made up for the grain decline...
...grain crop was 70 million bushels above average, 93 million bushels above last year...
...Department worried, and with reason. But some of the journalistic hand-wringing going on last week was, in effect, handing the Russians a greater victory than they have yet won. A single U.S. construction firm, Morrison-Knudsen, has put up more projects in southern Afghanistan than all the flashy grain elevators and oil tanks put up by the Russians in Kabul. The Russians have a talent for getting more propaganda value out of their shadows than the U.S. does out' of its substance...
...dusk; another will hold firmly that they should be hunted in daylight. An experienced moose hunter will argue that a single shot from a comparatively light 30-30 rifle is enough to fell a moose; a second will answer that only a powerful .35 Remington Express with a 200-grain bullet is equal to the task. Is a bear's eyesight bad? Should elk be hunted on horseback? Is a Rocky Mountain goat harder to kill than a grizzly? Fresh experiences refuel the old arguments every fall and keep them raging until the next big-game hunting season comes...