Word: kabul
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Many of the newspaper ads are for cheap food. One such, with a picture of an attractive housewife at her stove, is for "Moscow Meatballs." The Russians have developed soybean food substitutes for flour, cheese and kefir (fermented milk), and these are plugged frequently, along with Kabul, a soya sauce for meats. "Soya cheeselets," the ads say, "available sweet with currants to commercial enterprises. Cost four times less than animal-produced cheeses...
From Carson City to Kabul, the audience sighed pleasurably and started feeling for its shoes. The chase was over. In sunny France last week, the son of the Prophet finally did right by little Rita...
...Kabul's bazaars, the oldest in Asia, displayed the same kind of goods they had when Marco Polo stopped off there seven centuries ago. New items had been added. Mostly from the U.S. had come the lawn mowers, baby carriages, perfumes, canned goods...
...Western influence in Afghanistan has its competition. The Russian legation in Kabul is larger than the other legations combined. Russian propaganda is hampered-not by any innate Afghan democratic leanings, but by a rigidly enforced law which makes any political talk or activity, except that sponsored by the Government, a criminal offense...
...Afghanistan, desperately in need of outside supplies, was finally made eligible for Lend-Lease. A U.S. official went to Kabul to ask the Afghans what they needed most. They said "everything." He suggested medicines as a starter. The Afghan committee withdrew with a drug catalogue, returned next day with a list that began: " 1) Medicine to ease a weary heart...