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...nearly $15 per Afghan in economic aid. The Russians have used their money to build their customary eye-catching projects-a giant silo and a bakery in Kabul, a quick-surfacing job on Kabul's streets-while the U.S. has invested some $50 million in the long-term Helmand Valley irrigation project, where results will come more slowly but ultimately will be of more value to Afghanistan's economy. The U.S. has 355 technicians working in Afghanistan, while the Russians have some 2,000-their largest force in any non-Communist country...
...will provide the Russians with a perfect network of all-weather highways running from the Oxus to the Khyber Pass, the traditional invasion route into India from the north. U.S. technicians are also working on a huge international airport at Kandahar and have raised dams, like those in the Helmand Valley, to control Afghanistan's seasonal rivers. But, although it is carefully geared to the nation's long-range needs, most U.S. aid is invisible to the average Afghan. A quiet program of teacher training cannot compete with a skyscraping silo; a gift of wheat is less evident...