Word: jetports
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...took over as Prime Minister and shrewd strongman of Afghanistan, Daoud had played the neutralist role cannily enough to keep the money rolling in from both quarters. The Russians built a military and jet airport near Kabul, the capital. The U.S. is just finishing a huge, 10,500-ft. jetport near Kandahar, has started work on other civil airports at Herat, Kunduz and Jalalabad. Russian and U.S. highway gangs compete, in trying to outbuild one another...