Word: hashim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitor from Afghanistan was Prime Minister Mohammed Hashim Maiwandwal, whose mission, though officially unofficial, rated full-dress treatment from Johnson. Afghanistan, after all, shares borders with Russia as well as Red China-not to mention Pakistan, India and Iran. There were bands, honor guards, a 19-gun salute, and a sit-down lunch for 140 in the Yellow Oval Room with green turtle soup, Florida red snapper and vanilla Jalalabad, named for the mountain resort that is the Afghans' Aspen. Afterward, during a half-hour talk with the President, Maiwandwal promised that Afghanistan would continue to press for democratic...
...high school and university students followed up with a sit-in in the Wolesi Jirga, demanding Yusuf's ouster. Street demonstrations followed, and the police fired into the crowd, killing at least three. The King secured Yusuf's resignation and in his place appointed Mohammed Hashim Maiwandwal, 46, a lanky, Lincolnesque liberal who was born in a three-room mud hut and rose to prominence as Afghanistan's ambassador to Washington, London and Karachi. Maiwandwal quickly dashed off to the university and calmed the irate students. They carried him away in a heap of flowers...
...Hashim hustled, smashed, flicked, and tricked his way to an eight-game draw with his nephew Mohibulla Khan, the world's best squash player. Mohibulla is the 27-year old speedster who needed only 20 minutes to win the United States Open this year, but yesterday Hashim battled him on even terms for almost an hour and a half...
...Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
Despite his age and 5-5, 150-pound frame, Hashim still is second only to Mohibulla in court coverage. Mohibulla often hit-corner shots that dropped like sponges, only to find his bald, bandy, legged uncle right there, waiting for the kill...