Word: haji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gilgit, members of khan Haji Rahman Qul's tribe see their culture disappearing even as they themselves are dying. For their very culture is wrapped up with their animals. Providing food, shelter, clothing, and goods for barter, livestock sustains the tribe's all-too-precarious existence. The women of the tribe--who must still cook, sew, and care for their families--have become the barers of the tribe's culture. But to survive, the tribe must have enough land at the right altitude to raise their animals in peace and carry on their nomadic existence...
...Indonesia, corruption is so family-oriented that in the early 1970s, President Suharto's wife Tien was known as "Mrs. Ten Percent." These days scandal surrounds one Haji Achmad Thahir, a drab Indonesian government employee who never made more than $9,000 per year in salary in his life. But relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill...
...bayonets and automatic rifles in ostensible charge. But Kabul is not yet quiet, or beaten. There is nightly gunfire on the outskirts, and there were two major military incidents during the week. Precisely at noon one day, there was a considerable Shootout a few blocks from the mosque of Haji Yaqub, known as the blue mosque. A house-to-house search by Afghan soldiers and police had been going on in residential streets behind the mosque, long a "suspect" neighborhood, when the shooting broke out between troops and the inhabitants of one house. After the incident, troops cordoned...