Afghanistan, July 1969 – Page 14

Meanwhile the airplane had so banged about that it gave up the Herat flight and canceled[?] again. The dust storms were already beginning. The Deputy Governor, who now turned out to be the Commandant's son, arrived with a hatchet of retainers[?], and told in graphic detail the story of his first marriage. She was the daughter of a koushai near Kandahar. She was very beautiful, her father refused to part with his daughter. He and three friends kidnapped her and he took her to Kabul Kandahar. The aggrieved family then Summoned him to Kabul by covert action. and he in a moment of passion shot the daughter, her father, her mother and their lawyer. But in prison for a year he escaped hanging by paving the equivalent of £3,500. "Crime passion no body to blame"