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Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
The  piece that
> Marie quoted from the NYT travel section 
> http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/14/travel/lahore-a-survivor-with-a-bittersweet-history.html?&pagewanted=1
>  certainly suggests that there were Americans travelling as tourists 
> in those countries in 1981.


Lynn, Marie...
Just a minor correction here...This 'tourist' was a member of the press.
 Barbara Crossette is the tourist, and while the article is dated in
June of 1981,  She mentions "during our stay in January"
Pakistan was an ally of the US-remember that Russia was in Afghanistan
and Pakistan was basically a refugee country.  Due to the increasing
strictness of Islamic law, non-Muslims were generally not welcome unless
they had some kind of official business, like the press would have
covering the refugee crisis, or like aid workers would have, etc.  It
was a volatile, dynamic situation, and just because all was calm while
Crossette was there in January, that doesn't mean that things were
'tourist-friendly' later in the year.

I know everyone here probably has me pegged squarely in the 'NOBAMA'
corner, but you'd be wrong.  Do I like the guy?  I'll say this...I like
the guy about as much as I like Sarah Palin, and I don't trust either of
them to do what is best for the country in the long run.  As people,
Obama is growing on me, and the more I learn about him the more he
reminds of a guy I met in college-(I really had a crush on him, but for
the life of me, I can't remember his name(if I could, I'd find him on
Facebook!)) and I really, really envy Sarah Palin's life of leisure up
there in Alaska, with her moose hunting, fishing, lakefront living
lifestyle<g>.
Anyway, in an attempt to find a month in 1981 of when Obama went to
Pakistan, I came across this page, and I wanted to pass it on to you all
even though it is 14 months old and you probably already read this.  It
should be of interest to all: those who love our President, those who do
not trust our President, and those who are reserving judgment.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004417706_apyoungobama2ndldwritethru.html

Bev



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