Word: kabul
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Afghanistan is bigger than France, but it has only one movie theater. The capital, ancient Kabul, has only one café. And the café is allowed to open one week in the year. Last week was it-and Kabul's mud walls fairly shook with the greatest celebration yet of Jash'n Istiklal...
...turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore U.S. zoot suits (but their girls went veiled...
...Robert Fluker, an ex-Kansas football star, now teaching math at Kabul University, tried to give the Afghans some good, clean fun by organizing the country's first boxing matches and baseball games. Premier Sha'h Mahmoud Khan, who has a son at Harvard (and is a Gershwin fan), lobbed out the first ball, and smiled inscrutably as the game progressed from error to error. Since Afghan bagpipers on the sidelines tootled furiously and folk dancers whooped and whirled, the errors were understandable...
...legitimized the de facto Soviet sovereignty over the Kushk district, a remote corner of the world where Afghanistan, Iran and the U.S.S.R. meet among the high pastures, vast pistachio groves and wild tribesmen who live around the ancient Oxus River.* The treaty just negotiated between Moscow and Kabul scraps two 1921 clauses which granted the people of Kushk the right to choose their own masters by plebiscite, and stipulated Russian financial and material aid to Afghanistan...
Fashions in political expansion have changed since the days when Genghis Khan swept through this dry and rocky land, leaving in his wake ghastly skull pyramids to act as scare-rebels. By maintaining a big embassy staff in mud-walled Kabul, Russia has used gentler means to win Afghan acquiescence...