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From the time of Alexander the Great, the road to Indian conquest has led down from the north through the Khyber Pass. To keep the encroaching Russians away from this gateway to their empire, the British built up the buffer state of Afghanistan across the Khyber's mountainous northern approaches. Last week, only nine years after the British turned over the Khyber's defenses to the new and troubled state of Pakistan, the long-feared penetration of Russian military influence into Afghanistan was announced as a fact. In Kabul, Afghanistan's Strongman Mohammed Daoud Khan, who last...
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...
Marriage Revealed. Terry Moore (real name: Helen Luella Koford), 27, cinemactress (King of the Khyber Rifles); and Eugene C. McGrath, 33, Panama insurance broker; both for the second time (her first: Footballer Glenn Davis); on New Year's Day, in Las Vegas...
...Afghans have been depending on the Russians for essential supplies and increasing economic aid since last July, when Pakistan shut down the Khyber Pass over a territorial dispute with Afghanistan. But the family that governs Afghanistan (through King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his strong-willed brother-in-law, Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan) took special precautions against too conspicuous a welcome to the northerners. Few flags or banners were hung in Kabul's streets. The public was not told of the coming visit, and the government did not even confide to foreign embassies what day the Russians would...