Whenever a foreign visitor sits down in the Kabul office of His Royal Highness Sardar Mohammed Daoud of Afghanistan, he invariably gets a lecture. Its subject: the $700 million in foreign aid Daoud needs for his ambitious five-year economIc plan for mountainous, feudal Afghanistan. "We hope all our friends will participate and that we will get assistance from everywhere," he smiles, lighting an American cigarette with a Russian match, "But if it is not forthcoming in one quarter, we will get it in another."
In the eight years since he took over as...
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