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Draper sees no landing problems except at the high (6,000 ft.) field at Kabul, Afghanistan (which is being constructed for the Afghans by the Russians). Hemmed in by high mountain ranges, Kabul has no instrument-landing facilities, is often socked in suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul...
...need of specific policies and concrete leadership, he is playing the role of Scheherazade, spinning fanciful words in the hope that if the West can only keep talking long enough the essential problems will be somehow eroded away in a new spirit of Geneva, or Camp David, or perhaps Kabul. Khrushchev's memory, however, is likely to be better than that of the Sultan Schahriar...
Since 1955, when Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin swept into Kabul after a whirlwind tour of India, the Afghan government has developed a talent for taking with both hands from both sides in the cold war. From Russia come military instructors, heavy tanks, MIG fighter planes and Ilyushin jet bombers. To Russia go hundreds of young Afghans for training as pilots and mechanics. In the country's northern provinces, Soviet aid is transforming potholed Afghan roads into paved superhighways, including one that runs from the Russian railheads and ports on the Oxus River 390 miles south...
...Kabul, Moscow's aid has a more pleasing and dramatic look. On Russian-paved streets, Soviet-made taxis dart in and out of the traffic of laden camels and horse-drawn carriages. Over the city looms an eleven-story mechanized silo with a bakery attached where Russian experts supervise the mass production of bread and its delivery throughout the city by a fleet of Russian trucks. Some $300 million in Soviet grants and loans provide Afghanistan with oil-storage tanks, power plants, factories and a direct radiotelephone link with Moscow. Today, fully half of Afghanistan's trade...
Highways South. U.S. aid ($145 million) includes construction of some 500 miles of roads from Kabul south and east to the Pakistan border; although it was not intended that way, the roads 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...