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Scenes illlustrating the success of the Afghan Government's mondernization program under contracts with Morrison-Knudsen-Afghanistan construction company (MKA).
Various scenes of Afghanistan and its people several years after its post war modernization program. Scenes of Kabul. Older students leaving a school and younger ones walking through a park-like setting. Afghan planners discussing future projects. View of a dam built by MKA. A large Afghan factory building. Afghans loading huge bags of cotton for export. A man shows the contents of one sack. Smoke stack on an Afghan textile plant. Inside, many machines spin cotton into thread. Glimpses of new hospitals, schools and mosques. A modern home and garden. A gardener waters pots of flowers in the garden. Views of a vast field of grain at the MKA experimental farm. The field is seen when green, and then again, when ready for harvest. Afghan farmers harvesting the wheat with machinery. Men walking alongside a harvesting machine in operation.
Missiles and missile containers on transporters, and T-54 tanks move during Afghan Army parade in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan Army units parade in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan Army armored vehicles passing along a road during the Afghan Army parade in Kabul. Three SA-2 Guidelines, the Soviet designed surface-to-air missiles, on transporters moving along the road. People lined on the side of the road. A few missile containers on transporters move on the road. T-54 tanks with soldiers on it moving along the road during the parade. '4-410' written on a tank. The Army band playing instruments march following the tank. View of men and children watching the parade.
Views of the city and points of interest in Kabul, the Capital of Afghanistan during its modernization after World War II
Film opens panning across the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan. High mountains dominate the background. Scene shifts to a street in the city, with a mosque at its end. Buses travel along the street and numerous pedestrians walk along its sides. Camera focuses on the Kabul River and bridge over it in the Nakhās district of Kabul. A car drives past a monument in a park-like setting. Pedestrians walk along a street, and give way as a bus passes in the center. Views of several mosques in the city. The National House of Parliament, overlooking the city from a hill on the outskirts. A blue and white flag flies from its roof. View of the Tajbeg Palace. Construction taking place in the city of Kabul. Masons pass bricks, one at a time as they build a new structure. A herd of pack animals carrying building materials to a building site. Buildings of modern design.
Students receive a modern education at school and university level in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A film about the life of people in Afghanistan. Children play at a school. Exteriors of the University of Kabul. Students milling about in the foreground. American and Afghan professors at work. Students in the university campus. Views of students playing football (Soccer), basketball, boxing, throwing the shot put, and wrestling.
Senator Jim Sasser and Arnold L Raphel 's interview on Afghanistan situation.
Interview by Harry Ellis, with reporter from Geneva joining via telephone. Guests are U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the 20mm Anti Aircraft guns purchased by the United States that should be handed over to Afghan resistance. Arnold L Raphel states that the Afghanistan situation is an issue between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world.
Senator Jim Sasser and Arnold L Raphel are interviewed regarding Afghanistan.
Interview at Woldnet studio hosted by Harry Ellis, with reporter from The Hague joining via telephone. Guest Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern an South Asian Affairs. He states that Soviet Union is committed to negotiating an agreement on the Afghanistan situation. He further says that there has been gradual ability of Mujahideen (Muslim Fundamentalists) to stand up to Soviet Union.
