Word: zahir
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...last time Afghanistan pinned its hopes on Mohammed Zahir Shah, he was not much more than a boy. In 1933, as a 19-year-old Prince, he witnessed the assassination of his father, King Nadir Shah, and was called on to take the throne to spare his nation from potentially bloody turmoil. He would go on to rule Afghanistan for 40 years, bringing an era of relative peace and prosperity and unprecedented democratic reforms. Displayed prominently today in Zahir Shah's plush, carpeted living room in Rome is a 1949 photograph of himself in military uniform, his piercing dark eyes...
...Zahir Shah, 87, is expected to touch down this week in Kabul for the first time since he was ousted in a bloodless coup by a cousin in 1973. Security will be extraordinary as the former King is accompanied from Rome by interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. Both Karzai's presence and the tight security are signs that Afghanistan's good guys and bad guys alike believe the royal leader may possess a singular power to unify the fractured nation. A European official with extensive experience in the region said the ex-monarch's popular support is remarkably strong...
...Winners DR. "PATCH" ADAMS Clown doctor administers the gift of laughter to hospitalized Afghan children. His favorite kind of audience: people strapped in beds MOHAMMED ZAHIR SHAH Exiled Afghan King confirms he'll return to the country after 29 years. Turn right at Iran and look for a really big pile of bombed-out rubble ELIZABETH DOLE Robo-lady begins candidacy for Senate, gets fund raising help from Dubya. On their wedding day, she and Bob vowed to run for anything Losers JAY LENO TV host in trouble after he cracks a joke about South Korean dog eating. Other...
...contain the damage. He claims that the motives for Rahman's death were "personal, not political." But Rahman, like Karzai, was a royalist, and some diplomats believe the killing was the Northern Alliance's way of demonstrating opposition to the planned return to Afghanistan this spring of Mohammed Zahir Shah, 87, the exiled monarch. An Afghan patriarch was heard muttering at the funeral: "This killing is a clear warning to Zahir Shah's people...
...contain the damage. He claims that the motives for Rahman's death were "personal, not political." But Rahman, like Karzai, was a royalist, and some diplomats believe the killing was the Northern Alliance's way of demonstrating opposition to the planned return to Afghanistan this spring of Mohammed Zahir Shah, 87, the exiled monarch. An Afghan patriarch was heard muttering at the funeral: "This killing is a clear warning to Zahir Shah's people...