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...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...
...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's long-range needs, most U.S. aid is invisible to the average Afghan. A quiet program of teacher training cannot compete with...
AIRLINE DEAL between U.S. Government, Pan American World Airways and Afghanistan will turn underdeveloped nation into international air link. U.S. will lend Afghanistan some $14 million to revamp antiquated Afghan Aryana airline, buy new planes and build first-class field with 12,000-ft. runway at Kandahar near the Pakistan border. Pan American will supervise modernization and get option to buy 49% of Aryana's stock...
...Sestriere, in Italy, Andy capped her season in the annual Kandahar race, regarded last year as the unofficial world championship. Andy schussed downhill like a spearheaded avalanche. She was sure she had made a good run. But when the times were announced, Andy was some 30 seconds behind the winner. Andy and Dave went off to swallow their disappointment in a cup of tea. Twenty minutes later they heard there had been a mistake in the timing: Andy was a clear-cut, two-second winner. Says Dave: "She didn't say anything, just grinned and kept on drinking...
...F.I.S. downhill; Austria's Erika ("Riki") Mahringer, Andy's best friend and, says Andy, "better than Dagmar Rom* ever was"; France's Andree Tournier Bermond, winner of last year's giant slalom at Mont Blanc; Italy's Celina ("The Tigress") Seghi, two-time Arlberg-Kandahar winner; and Germany's Hilde-Suse Gaertner, 1951 Davos-Parsenn Derby winner...