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Here and There in Afghanistan, a 1966 publication of the Royal Afghan Ministry of Education surveys the rapid strides made by Afghan women--"Till recently screened from the rest of the world by snowy mountain ramparts and hidden from the eyes of strange men by the veil, Afghan women knew the sure way to their husbands' hearts. They were wonderful cooks and prolific mothers." By 1966, however, women could explore a range of careers as vast as the Hindus Kish--"The majority of girls still become teachers but they have also begun to branch off into other directions such...
...public advertisements over who would hand the Pentagon the most money, and discuss "limited nuclear war" as casually as the latest poll. Proposals to lower unemployment or slow inflation litter the floors of New Hampshire auditoriums, mowed down by exorbitantly priced arsenals of MX missiles, B-1 bombers and "rapid deployment forces...
What is New Hampshire? An almanac calls it a "relatively small but well wooded and scenic state of mountains, lakes and rapid rivers that provide a good water supply and large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state...
...fact, defense outlays would probably swell the deficit even more, in Weidenbaum's view, if industry and the private economy were capable of rapidly filling the lengthy shopping list of ships, planes and materiel that will soon be needed. They will be necessary to plug the gaps that are likely to be created when the Pentagon begins drawing together the equipment required to shape up the 100,000-man Rapid Deployment Force that Carter wants. Production bottlenecks are inevitable, explained Weidenbaum, because supply shortages exist in everything from specialty steels to castings and forgings. Additionally, a host of strategic...
...reprehensible as the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan clearly is, it seems to me that the U.S. response has so rapidly escalated the sitation as to provide significant threat in itself. The rush to draw lines, to enter alliances, to seek bases and the start the shipment of significant new armaments to countries in the region, all add up to a dangerous and rapid drift to war. To easily seek military alliances with repressive regimes like that of Marshal Zia ul Haq in Pakistan, or the royal family in Saudi Arabia, seems to be creating just the same kinds of situations...