Word: khyber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From the Khyber Pass to the shores of the Arabian Sea, the land has known all manner of conquerors: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the British raj. Today, Pakistan has as much geopolitical importance as it had centuries ago. To the west lies an Iran convulsed by Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, to the east a teeming, sometimes hostile India, to the north and west an Afghanistan occupied by the Soviet army. When Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, 58, meets President Reagan in Washington this week, strategic issues, not surprisingly, will dominate the agenda...
...glowworm rode straight into controversy. He covered the Cuban revolution in 1895 as a journalist, fought at the Khyber Pass, and joined the last great cavalry charge in British history with Kitchener in the Sudan. Captured by Boers in South Africa, Winston was confined to a prison camp. His escape was neoclassic Churchill. He used a route fellow officers had worked out, but went alone. He had read his Nelson carefully. The admiral advised that victory depended on being there a quarter of an hour before the other fellows...
...jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Pakistan, where she urged more Western weapons sales to protect that country from a possible attack by Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan. Then she flew in one of Pakistan's Soviet Mi-8 helicopters to the Khyber Pass, where she talked to an Afghan border guard sporting, of course...
...energy resources and raw materials of the Third World are as vulnerable to the disruptions of regional politics as they are essential to the economies of the industrial West. Thus the current fears about the potential threat to Pakistan from Soviet legions on the other side of the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan may give way within a few years to even deeper dismay over Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout...
After "Life During Wartime," different artists picked up the now-successful theme. But the concern with war reached an obsessive pitch only with this fall's album releases--records that went into production last winter and spring, as Zbigniew Brzezinski posed in the Khyber Pass and American helicopters crashed in the sands around Tabaz. Some examples...