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My beautiful Afghanistan Lesley Garner, who lived in Kabul in the late Seventies, recalls her carefree picnics in an 'indestructible' city
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THIS week I did what I've been meaning to do since American wrath
turned on a remote state in the mountains of the Hindu Kush.
I unearthed Afghanistan. It involved going down into my cellar and
blowing the dust off the cardboard box of slides I took there in
1978, a year when I, my husband and our four-month-old baby set up
home on the edge of Kabul while he went off to train Afghan doctors
and nurses in rural health for Save the Children.
I had been very grumpy about going to ...
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My beautiful Afghanistan; Lesley Garner, who lived in Kabul in the late Seventies, recalls her carefree picnics in an 'indestructible' city.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... like tea leaves, trying to reassemble the country which has haunted my imagination for 23 years. I don't recognise it in the news reports and official communiques, this shorthand place of brutal landscape and brutal people, of starving refugees and pitiless ...
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WORLD RUSHES TO KABUL, CAUSING RENTS TO SKYROCKET
The Boston Globe
; KABUL, Afghanistan - Post-Taliban Kabul has opened its doors to the world - and is paying a price. An influx of United Nations staff, international aid agencies, and foreign journalists has suddenly made the capital's two premier neighborhoods (the only ones with somewhat reliable electricity and
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Anti-Taliban Alliance Drives Toward Kabul; Northern Faction Chief Proposes Cease-Fire
The Washington Post
; Forces loyal to Afghanistan's ousted coalition government prepared today for a final push to drive the Taliban militia from Kabul, just three weeks after the old regime beat a hasty and humiliating retreat from the capital. Troops led by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the displaced government's military
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Rebel attacks threaten Kabul
The Independent - London
; TIM McGIRK Islamabad Taliban, the Islamic student militia, fought its way closer to Kabul yesterday, capturing several strategic positions in the hills outside the battered Afghan capital. The Taliban students are no longer armed only with the Koran. Supported by tanks, artillery and renegade
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In Kabul.(Brief Article)
U.S. News & World Report
; A former reporter for the Kabul Times traveled from the Pakistan border to the battle-torn capital city last week for U.S. News. His name is being withheld for his safety. His report: Monday. 2:30 p.m. Khyber Pass. I flag down a taxi to Jalalabad. Taliban ...
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