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...negotiated with the Clinton Administration last year. Jordan is one of the smallest U.S. export markets, taking in just $306 million in U.S. goods last year. But many companies hope to make fresh inroads because duties on industrial and agricultural goods will disappear over the next decade. U.S. wheat and barley growers and telecommunication and pharmaceutical companies are expected to benefit, as are small firms such as Quigley of Doylestown, Pa., maker of Cold-Eeze lozenges; like many companies, it has sought contacts in Jordan but conducted no business there yet. U.S. workers might also benefit as some American companies...
...Allah Mahmad is an example of the human cement that holds together the opposition Northern Alliance. In other times he would have been a farmer, working in the lush wheat fields and fruit orchards of the Shomali Plain around Bagram. Instead, at 27, he has seen six years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority...
...years of drought and crossed into neighboring Pakistan. Of the 22 million who remained in their benighted country, around 4 million depended on food donated by foreign charities. World Food Program executive director Catherine Bertini said last week that the WFP needs to ship around 52,000 tons of wheat a month into Afghanistan to feed the hungry. "If there are serious impediments," she warned, "then we could be looking at a humanitarian catastrophe." Bertini's apprehension was shared by six international aid agencies, who called for a pause in the bombing to allow food to be delivered before...
...Ibrahim, a veteran of the mujahedin struggle against the Soviets from 1979-89, has a small farm at the base of the mountains in Nangarhar. He used to harvest wheat and corn and grow walnuts, apricots and grapes on his land. But since the onset of drought, he hasn't been able to grow enough to live on, so he came to Karkhla. He is not officially registered as a refugee and has no ID papers, but the Pakistani police leave people like him alone as long as they don't try to make their way to a major city...
...like frozen yogurt with honey, brown sugar and that wheat germ stuff that they have sometimes. It looks kind of like oatmeal...