Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passport had just been stamped at the customs house at the Khyber Pass on the border with Pakistan when the shooting began. "It's the Muslim fanatics!" cried the Afghan immigration official, as he dived for cover into a pile of crumpled visa forms. Outside, border guards with flapping puttees, braying donkeys, and assorted smugglers and baggage handlers churned about in confusion. Quiet soon returned, but the rebels had made their point. "Very, very bad this jihad [holy war]," a local tea vendor muttered. "The mujahidin are everywhere...
...thus are no match for the Taraki regime's Soviet-equipped 80,000-man army. But the rebellion has spread to 15 of the country's 28 provinces, and while guerrilla activity is most intense in the remote areas bordering on Iran in the west and Pakistan in the east, the regime has been forced to tighten security everywhere. Foreign diplomats in Kabul reckon that more than 12,000 political prisoners have been jailed. Major intersections in the capital, where an 11 p.m. curfew is in effect, are patrolled by soldiers, and the country's few highways...
Innocent he said he was and innocent Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [April 16] will always be in the minds and hearts of the poor people of Pakistan. His positive achievements far outnumber the misdeeds he may have committed. The only popular and nationally recognized political personality ever to emerge after independence is gone. A great leader has been taken away from his people by force...
...when it exports the crude. Eventually, everyone stands to lose. The world's poorest countries have borrowed so much to pay for oil that their accumulated indebtedness has risen to more than $210 billion. Such major U.S. lenders as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers will not be able to afford even their interest payments. The threat is not simply of defaults leading to instability, but of worsening hunger and unrest among the world's more than 1 billion subsistence-level...
...around the world. They hope to make even more countries dependent on their (expensive) services. But what sort of a government would inflict nuclear power on its citizens? Governments like those in South Korea, South Africa, and the Philippines, which the U.S. is selling nukes to. Governments like Brazil, Pakistan and Argentina would also like to buy into nukes, and a whole host of other undemocratic regims are interested...