Word: kabul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy of the journey occurred when the brothers reached Afghanistan two years ago. Walking near Kabul, the pair were attacked by bandits who had read in a local newspaper that they were collecting money for UNICEF along the way. Actually, they had been collecting only pledges (now totaling $10,000, Kunst claims), not cash, and had only a few dollars...
...York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary was in Kabul, Afghan authorities did some complex bureaucratic footwork that left him with no alternative to climbing onto a U.S.-bound plane. He is now serving the balance of his one-to ten-year sentence for marijuana possession in California...
...outpost to date is run by Floyd McClung, who once worked with Youth with a Mission, a go-getting organization that fields some 10,000 part-time young evangelists round the world. McClung, a giant of 6 ft. 6 in., and a group of youths started Dilaram House in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1971. He says: "We identify with the Jesus movement in belief but not in methodology." He means that his ministry−mostly to foreign students, many of them drug users−is easygoing, not lapel-grabbing. This is a wise policy, since Afghanistan has a fiercely Moslem regime...
Early on the morning after the coup, French-educated General Daoud, 65, went on Radio Kabul and announced that he had acted to end the King's "despotic regime" and replace it with a "genuine democracy." He charged that the government had been corrupt and ineffective, and had been heading "toward total bankruptcy." The depth of Daoud's commitment to democracy may be open to question, since he staged his takeover at a time when the King was about to sign a bill permitting formation of political parties. That would have been at least one step forward...
...which include a three-year drought that has claimed more than 20,000 lives. The country is noted for its harsh landscape (barren deserts interspersed with rugged mountains), wretched poverty (per capita annual income is $88), and widespread disease (half of all children die before the age of five). Kabul is also something of a hash haven for hippies from the U.S. and Europe. Narcotics are sold openly...