Word: khyber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...military government, one incentive in moving is to get away from the business lobbies and commercial interests that tempted the old regimes, and from the street mobs that they were able to hire for slogan-shouting marches on the legislature. The new inland capital, 100 miles east of the Khyber Pass, will also be a scant 35 miles from Rawalpindi-headquarters of the Pakistan army...
...Khyber Pass tribal leaders draped garlands around Macmillan's neck, gave him the traditional Pathan tribesman's greeting: "Welcome; come in peace." In Ceylon, which has been busily ejecting Britain from its old military bases, even Macmillan was amazed at the warmth of his welcome from crowds that lined the streets as he passed. Between speeches in Australia, the visitor shed his necktie and distributed the steaks in person at a Queensland sheep-station barbecue. In Melbourne he went out of his way to shake hands with policemen, housewives, schoolchildren and members of his honor guard. "A triumph...
Before signing, the Afghans had made a try at buying arms from the West. But the U.S. knows that its ally Pakistan would object violently if it sold arms to a neighbor that claims a lot of its territory, including the Khyber Pass itself. Besides, the U.S. has not taken kindly to Afghanistan's flirtations with the Communists. Already, Afghanistan's debt to Soviet Russia tops $120 million-quite a load for a country with a $25 million budget-and the latest deal will drive the figure higher...
...with baked goods. Almost every drop of gasoline used in the country now flows down from the north in caravans of 20 to 50 Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel was jammed with members of the 200-man Russian delegation...